SMART Utility 2.0.2 Build 2A198

SMART Utility is a very useful tool designed to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives.
SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements(called attributes) of a hard drives operation.
The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is dying. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive.
Each manufacturer implements a different number of attributes, but most implement some common ones. They include temperature and bad sectors (bad areas on the drive).
There are thresholds for each of these attributes, and if the measurement will drop below the threshold, the overall SMART status will automatically indicate failure.
However, some of these attributes, such as bad sectors, can indicated a failing hard drive before the threshold is reached. Unlike Disk Utility, and other drive utilities, which only check the overall SMART status, SMART Utility checks the individual attributes and indicates when a drive is failing.
SMART Utility is based on the command line "smartmontools", an open source software package that does the actual scanning of SMART attributes. SMART Utility only parses the data that smartmontools outputs, and it would not exist without it.

Main features:
- Displays all supported drives and their partitions.
- Displays important information in the main window, such as drive model, capacity, power on hours, temperature, bad sector counts, and error counts and types.
- Displays easy to read overall SMART status with color coded text.
- Displays more detailed information in separate windows, including capabilities, all available attributes, and the past five errors.
- Supports scanning individual RAID drives in addition to non-RAIDed drives.
- Supports logging all information to a log file for verifying SMART data.
- Supports Mac OS X 10.4 or later (including Server) and both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

Version restrictions:
- 30 days or 15 launches trial.

Enhancements
- Added French localization for help.
- Now main window refreshes when a test is complete.
- Now shows serial number when attempting to register again.
- Now updates registration menu depending on whether application is registered or not.
- Fixed bug where unregistering would cause application to consider the demo period expired.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
- Fixed some incorrect texts in help.
- Optimized debug log for faster output.
- Optimized launching code.
- Serial number is now in a separate file to allow deleting of preferences without losing registration information.