Home Server SMART

Home Server SMART is a Windows Home Server (WHS) add-in that automatically and continuously monitors the health of most of your hard disks attached to WHS. Home Server SMART examines the S.M.A.R.T. data exposed by your disks and determines the health of the disk. If problems are detected, Home Server SMART informs you which attribute(s) are critical or problematic, and it presents a summary of problems found. If the problems are serious, Home Server SMART will make a recommendation to you that you replace the disk.

Disks that are connected via IDE (PATA) and SATA (including eSATA), as well as a large number of USB disks (and possibly some FireWire disks), support Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) and report that S.M.A.R.T. data via the standard Microsoft storage driver (most modern PATA/SATA drives do), are fully supported. Unfortunately, most hardware RAID configurations are not supported, mainly because individual disks are not themselves exposed to the OS. Some USB enclosures, FireWire disks and other controllers that neither provide data via standard protocols nor WMI also will not provide data. Most users who use pre-build home servers (i.e. HP MediaSmart) shouldn't have any trouble. DIY home servers are the most likely to have one or more unsupported configurations, especially when RAID is used.

Simply log into the WHS Console, select the Home Server SMART add-in and immediately see all installed/connected disks. Click on a disk to see more details about the disk.

This software is not intended to be used in Windows Home Server 2011. Please see the WHS 2011 page for the upcoming HSS 2012 version.

NEW!  Version 2.0.10.28 was released on Friday, November 25, 2011.  This version is a bugfix release. It corrects a serious bug where old data may continue to display in the UI after one disk is removed and a new one is installed to replace it. The bug does not affect the automatic health checking and alerting; only the UI display is affected. The installer includes the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Runtime components, which are installed if they don't already exist on your server.

Need help? Find a bug? Want to see a new feature? Check out the Home Server SMART forum hosted on Home Server Land! If you want to tender a bug report, please email .

Screen Shots

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Downloads
The Installer download includes the MSI for installing on your server. If you would like to view the help file, it is available here as a standalone download.

Home Server SMART Installer (version 2.0.10.28 released 11/25/2011; includes Visual C++ 2008 Runtime - digitally signed)
Home Server SMART Help File (this is included in the installer, but available for standalone reading)

Installation Instructions

1. If you have an existing version of Home Server SMART installed, you will need to uninstall it.
2. Delete the HomeServerSMART.x.y.z.msi file from your Server's software Add-Ins folder, where x.y.z is the version you just uninstalled.
3. Extract the MSI file from the downloaded ZIP file, and copy the MSI to your Server's software Add-Ins folder.
4. Log back into the WHS Console and install Home Server SMART. WHS should report the version as 2.0.8.25.)

Requirements

• Windows Home Server "v1" with Power Pack 2 or later
• Visual C++ 2008 Runtime (included in installer)
• 5 MB of disk space on the WHS system disk

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This software is, and always will be, 100% free. There is no registration key. There are no advertisements. There is no spyware. It will never nag on you asking to register. You are free to download the software and use it for as long as you want, on as many machines as you want. And you don't have to pay anything for it.

However, if you like this software and would like to see future releases, new features and improvements, donations are always appreciated, but by no means required.

Trouble with the New Version?

Is the latest version not working out for you? Please email and tell us why! In the meantime, you can download previous versions here.

Home Server SMART v1