Home Server SMART

Home Server SMART is a Windows Home Server (WHS) add-in that enables you to monitor 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), 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, since neither USB nor IEEE 1394 (FireWire) attached disks report S.M.A.R.T. data in a standardized manner, Home Server SMART cannot read S.M.A.R.T. data from them. However, it can read the standard Microsoft storage driver "failure predicted" flag, and USB/IEEE 1394 expose this, so if the storage driver detects a potential problem, Home Server SMART will alert you to it.

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.

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Screen Shots

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Downloads

Home Server SMART Installer MSI (current version is 1.0.1.21 - released 1/21/2010 - 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 installed.
3. Copy the downloaded 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 1.0.1. (The full version is 1.0.1.21.)

Requirements

• Windows Home Server with Power Pack 2 or later
• 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.