Monitor your Hard Drive’s Health with Acronis Drive Monitor

Are you worried that your computers hard drive could die without any warning?

Hard drive failures are one of the most common ways people lose important data from their computers.

It monitors many indicators, including heat, read/write errors, total lifespan, and more.

It then notifies you via a taskbar popup or email that problems have been detected.

If you wish to simply implement the Drive Monitor utility, click Continue without adding.

Once its installed, it’s possible for you to quickly get an overview of your hard drives health.

Note that it shows 3 categories: Disk problems, Acronis backup, and Critical Events.

Drive Monitor stays running in your tray even when the program window is closed.

It will keep monitoring your hard drives, and will alert you if theres a problem.

If youd like more information, tap the link under the description.

Here we see that one of our drives have overheated, so click Show disks to get more information.

Now you might select each of your drives and see more information about them.

However, it is running at 113F, which is over the recommended max of 107F.

parameters tab gives us more detailed information about our drive.

Most users wouldnt know what an accepted value would be, so it also shows the status.

These could be useful indicators to look to see if youre considering purchasing a second hand computer.

Simply load this program, and youll get a better view of how long its been in use.

Finally, the Events tab shows each time the program gave a warning.

If you have any edition of any Acronis Backup product installed, it will show that it was detected.

Note that it can only monitor the backup status of the newest versions of Acronis Backup and True Image.

Finally, you might view any detected Critical events from the Critical events tab on the left.

To set this up, click Options in the top left corner.

Select Alerts on the left, and then smack the Change parameters link to setup your email account.

Enter the email address which you wish to receive alerts, and a name for the program.

Then, enter the outgoing mail server prefs for your email.

Its no substitute for regular backups, but can help you avert problems.