ACRONIS DRIVE MONITOR Datasheet
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Acronis® Drive Monitor™Free tool alerts you about the safety of your dataFeatures and benefitsAutomatically checks for disk problemsWorks on any Windows PC, workstationor server.Monitors event logsFlags events that may indicate that datais in danger so you can back it up.Receive alerts immediatelySends an email, and displays a messageon the Windows taskbar when it uncoversa disk-related problem.Weekly status reportsShows the electromechanical health ofall your drives in one report.Can support RAID drives tooScripting allows you to monitor RAIDcontrollers not using S.M.A.R.T.monitoring technology. An Acronis forumacts as a clearinghouse for users to sharescripts.Three kinds of supportAn Acronis forum, a knowledge base withdozens of articles and a built-in helpfunction are available for this easy-to-usesoftware application.We all depend on instant access to data stored on our hard drives – buriedinside PC laptops, workstations and servers – but those disks are vulnerableto severe failures that can cause you to lose business and personal data.With so much riding on the reliability of hard disks, Acronis provides an earlywarning system – Acronis Drive Monitor – that can make all the differencebetween the data you have and the data you could potentially lose. This free,downloadable software application comes to you from Acronis, the leader inaffordable, scalable, backup, disaster recovery and security solutions.Monitors disk healthAcronis Drive Monitor checks three categories:State and health of physical drive (including temperature, seek errorrate, spin-up time and more than 20 other indicators) via a disk-residentmonitoring function called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis andReporting Technology) is presented in a understable form. Acronis DriveMonitor also supports other storage, such as non-S.M.A.R.T.-compatibleRAID systems, via scripts (see Figure 1).Critical events may indicate increased risk of unexpected data loss. Unlikemost disk monitoring utilities that depend wholly on S.M.A.R.T. monitoring,Acronis Drive Monitor also monitors certain events that may indicate anincreased risk for data safety, even when S.M.A.R.T. output data shows noabnormalities. These events include: (1) logical file system corruptions onNTFS and FAT file systems, (2) Corruption of dynamic disk logical structure,(3) Failed read or write operations that might indicate faulty hardware ordrivers, (4) Volume Shadow Copy service failures and (5) Other similarevents (see Figure 2, next page). Unless noticed early, these problems maybecome more severe and lead to partial or complete data loss. Acronis DriveMonitor checks for such messages and can provide early warnings in orderthat preventive actions can be taken.State of disk backups – for Acronis Drive Monitor users who also alreadyuse Acronis home or business products, such as Acronis® True Image Home,Acronis® Backup and Security 2010 and Acronis® Backup & Recovery™10, Acronis Drive Monitor will alert the user if the latest backup has failedor if a backup has not been created for a while. Otherwise, users will beautomatically reminded of the need for a backup whenever a potential harddrive problem is detected.Figure 1Disk health monitors SMART parameters and displaysstatus.DATA SHEET |
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