June 8, 200620 yr I have found this utility to be extremely useful in my Windows box -to watch the health of my drives. I know that this app is pretty much just accessing the S.M.A.R.T. information from each drive so I would think that the same information could be availalbe to the web interface... http://www.hddlife.com Specifically useful: Enable Noise/Performance level adjustment Work time (time running) Health status (in percentage from 1-100)
June 13, 200620 yr Aaron Oz, I just checked out HDLife. That looks like a very nice program. However, for some reason it won't install on my system. It 'seems' like the installer is trying to launch, but never pops up more than just a flash as though it is extracting files or something and then goes away. When I looked at the help files, it describes the program as being distributed as a Microsoft Installer program (using a .msi extension) yet the file I downloaded is an .exe. Have you ever seen anything like this? -PGPfan
June 14, 200620 yr Author I've installed it in on a couple of systems and I have not had that problem. I do recall something about needing to have the latest version of the .NET framework installed. There are some installers that are now relying on at least having the .NET 1.1 framework. To be safe you could download the .NET 2.0 framework and see if that helps. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en Let me know if you get it installed. It's a pretty impressive little piece of software. Aaron
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