Way back in January we reviewed the Home Server SMART add-in for Windows Home Server from Dojo North Software. Now they have released an update bringing it to version 1.1.36.6.
What this add-in does is monitor the health of your hard drives in your Windows Home Server.
Here is what what Dojo North Software have to say:
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.
And here is what they said about the new update:
Version 1.1.36.6 was released on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. This version addresses several major bugs, including the dreaded WMI “not supported” bug that prevented disks from displaying, a NullReferenceException that caused disk details to not display and a column sorting bug that caused disks to sort incorrectly by capacity. This version also adds some new features, like customizable temperature thresholds, temperature preference (Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin), and having the option of ignoring the alerts generated if a disk gets warm or hot (but not overheated or critically hot).
You can download the update and learn more from the Dojo North Software website.
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