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Home Server SMART

By on January 24, 2010 in Add-ins & Apps, Disk Management, WHS v1

Experience Level: Medium

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.

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Developer: Dojo North Software

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Release History

v2.0.8.25 (2nd September 2011)

  • Automatic, continuous monitoring
  • USB Disk support
  • Bug fixes

v1.6.10.28 (28th February 2011)

  • Continuous, automatic disk monitoring and alerting added plus USB support

v1.0.36.6 (2nd November 2010)

  • The dreaded “WMI worker process has encountered an exception: not supported” is no more. The code and try/catch block that encountered this has been adjusted so if the error condition arises, it doesn’t prevent the disk list from being populated. I also checked for this condition and if it occurs, a more useful message is displayed.
  • Fixed the NullReferenceException that occurred when clicking on some disks.  Home Server SMART wrongly assumed all disks exposed every attribute (i.e. model, interface, partition count, etc.) and if a disk didn’t expose the attribute, then an error was displayed and any remaining data was not displayed.  The code now checks the validity of each item, and only invalid items are skipped.
  • Fixed the Capacity column sorting – if you click on the Capacity column, the disks sort in correct numeric order now!

v1.0.1.21 (23rd January 2010)

  • Initial release

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  • coasttech

    It does what it says it does and works at what its doing. I think this add-in is a must if you want to know some good info on your HDD’s. I found out one of my HDD’s had 3 bad sectors, thats good info to know!

  • Boontonflyer

    Great Add In!! Does super job of giving disk parameter data including internal temp. It’s a “must have” especially with the temperature issues on the Acer H340. Spent better part of a day getting just some of this info by other methods (including temp. probe). This blows that data away in minutes.

    Paul

  • ois

    Just installed on my homeserver and a 1.5TB I bought about 6 months ago has 21 bad sectors. Shutting down now!

    I bet this was the one that fell off the shelf!.

    Excellent add in, could not thank you more.

  • man_on_the_hill

    Have to agree with the above – installed on my home server, started looking at drives, and I had one looking bad. WIndows had no complaints about it – until I ran checkdsk, when things went south, fast (unable to replace bad sectors). Ultimately wound up trying to migrate stuff off so I could replace the disk, which was unsuccessful – long story short, lost all the client node backups on the server as a consequence of that disk failure. Ouch!
    But all the clients are still happy, and they’re all now doing new backups to the server – so effectively no data lost, just older state. Share data wasn’t affected (I always enable folder duplication, don’t you?).

  • Jay

    WHS Console I recently install home server but I cant seem to get the console. can some assist.

    Jay