Please also refer to the above question, especially the (*) section. errors only appear for a short period of time, and might have switched back until you verified it in Disk Utility. If you can open Disk Utility and SMARTReporter's preferences window at the same time and they both show a different result for a given hard disk drive there really is a problem and I would be VERY interested to fix this.Īctually, it does not! All the reports of this behavior I've got to date have been based on this: sometimes S.M.A.R.T. information you just have to open its preference window.
To force SMARTReporter to re-read the S.M.A.R.T. status was actually "bad" only for a few seconds during the last check. Keep in mind that the default polling interval in SMARTReporter is one hour, so it shows you the Red "failure icon" for the whole hour, even if the S.M.A.R.T. errors sometimes appear just for a short period of time, and the status may have already changed back to "verified" when looking it up in Disk Utility. Follow this link for more information about S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors - it's just a very valuable indicator. alert doesn't mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T.
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These are just well-meant suggestions, you are of course free to ignore them. In any case you shouldn't rely on said hard disk drive with critical data anymore. alert sufficient evidence that the hard disk drive is bad, and will immediately issue an RMA for its replacement. Some hard disk drive manufacturers consider a S.M.A.R.T. You should see "S.M.A.R.T.-Status: Failing" at the bottom right - if not, you don't need to continue, but please tell me that SMARTReporter was wrong (*)!Ģ.) Immediately make a backup of all valuable data on the hard disk drive.ģ.) Contact Apple, or your hard disk drive manufacturers technical support department for instructions. Q: SMARTReporter contains memory leaks! What's up?ġ.) If you are using a beta-version of SMARTReporter or just want to verify the failure-prediction, open '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' and select the said drive (not partition). Q: Why can't I command-drag the menu icon of SMARTReporter? Q: Why does SMARTReporter display only one menu icon although i have multiple HDDs? Q: Does SMARTReporter work when no user is logged-on? Q: Is there a workaround to enable I/O error checking for non-admin accounts? Q: I've set SMARTReporter not to display an icon in the Menu. Q: Why do Copy&Paste or other keyboard shortcuts not seem to work in SMARTReporter? Q: SMARTReporter keeps telling me it found I/O errors. Q: Can SMARTReporter tell me exactly which S.M.A.R.T. Q: Why are my hard disk drives attached to a PCI-ATA-card not seen/supported? Q: Why would I need SMARTReporter although S.M.A.R.T. Q: Why are my FireWire/USB/SCSI based hard disk drives not seen/supported? Q: Does SMARTReporter support external hard disk drives? Q: Why does SMARTReporter report another S.M.A.R.T. Q: What to do when SMARTReporter predicts a failure?
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