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Acronis launches free disk monitoring tool
June 2010 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Acronis announced the release of a new free disk monitoring tool for businesses and consumers alike, Acronis® Drive Monitor™. Acronis Drive Monitor is a free, downloadable software application that monitors the health of
server, PC and laptop hard disk drives. It helps to alert users to problems that may indicate an
imminent failure and in doing so gives users time to react by saving the data contained on their
hard drive and allowing them to arrange for replacements.
When Acronis Drive Monitor identifies a problem, it generates an email or onscreen alert
describing the specific finding. It offers an explanation of the alert
guiding the user to the steps they need to take to remedy the issue. A color coded summary
provides an overview of the disk’s health at a glance and weekly reports summarize the findings.
Acronis Drive Monitor observes operating system health, checks the last backup date, and
evaluates disk performance data generated by most disk drives via a disk-resident monitoring
function called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). Acronis also
supports other storage devices such as non-S.M.A.R.T. compatible RAID systems via scripts.
Further, Acronis Drive Monitor also monitors messages in the Windows event log that indicate that
data may be in danger.
Acronis Drive Monitor is integrated with the current versions of Acronis home and business
backup and recovery products. Users of Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 business software,
Acronis® True Image Home 2010 and Acronis® Backup and Security 2010 home PC software can
take advantage of Acronis Drive Monitor’s ability to trigger an immediate, automated backup of
any disk that shows signs of imminent failure. It also notifies users if a backup has not been
performed.
Acronis Drive Monitor works on most Windows PCs, workstations or servers to check for diskrelated
OS events, file system errors, and negative changes in S.M.A.R.T.-monitored disk functions
like throughput, spin-up time and seek error rates.
Acronis Disk Monitor is a free tool available to everyone.
