The Free Hard Drive Monitor software is a simple application that generates email alerts for impending hard drive problem due to low hard drive space, hard drive hardware failure, hard drive corruption and a host of other hard drive problems that windows automatically logs.
Hard drive monitoring is crucial for any user or corporation, especially for the servers and critical computers. This application has a very small foot print and can reside on any windows operating system working silently and efficiently in detecting hard drive related problems and emailing them to you automatically.
The Free Hard Drive Monitor was created when Pulse Engineers could not find an off the shelf software that could simply check for basic Hard drive problems and send them an email so they could rectify issues before they become problems. The software is less than 1000 lines of code, it works in a simple and stable fashion doing just what it’s supposed to do, look for hard drive errors periodically and sending out emails with as much detail as possible.
The application has no user interface, it simply emails the alerts as and when they occur. The current version checks for the available space, SMART variables described below and Hard drive errors caught from Windows Event log. This basically includes all accurate ways of predicting server failure due to hard drive problems.
The hard drive monitor has been built with .Net 2.0 for Pulse engineers and is currently monitoring 100s of critical web servers.
The latest version features SMART Hard drive monitoring features as well !
