SMARTReporter anyone?

[vier-personen]

after reading the thread about cleaning the desktop I finally could motivate myself to clean my own desktop, and there I found SMARTReporter ( http://homepage.mac.com/julianmayer/sma ... index.html ) - I couldn‘t remember that I downloaded it.

so, is anyone here using it? is it usefull and save?

quote from the readme:

"Introduction:
SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some ATA hard-drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard-drives. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard-drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA or S-ATA hard-drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard-drive, send feedback to Apple.
SMARTReporter can notify you of impending drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.
Requirements:
••• Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") or later ("Tiger" compatible)
••• At least one ATA or S-ATA hard-drive

License and Price:
SMARTReporter is completely free of charge and licensed under the Open Source MIT License."

[AlMacMeister]

I've been using version 2.0.1 (which is not the latest version) on my iBook for a long time now (several years iirc). No problems at all for me. I haven't seen the need to get the latest update; most of the latter changes have been for UB or for adding features I didn't need to use.

[vier-personen]

thanks for the reply, I guess I will keep smartreporter...