StableBit Scanner is an advanced hard drive scanning and monitoring tool for Windows Home Server v1, Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. It monitors all hard drives in your home server looking for damage then analyses and retrieves files from the damaged sectors of the disk.
StableBit Scanner reads and monitors the on-disk Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology data in order to predict disk failure. StableBit Scanner tries very hard to get at the S.M.A.R.T. data, it asks the Operating System, it asks the disk directly by issuing commands to it, and it talks to USB bridge chips in order to get direct access to drives behind USB enclosures. If S.M.A.R.T. detects disk failure, you are notified immediately.
StableBit Scanner is designed not to interfere with any other disk access. If another application starts accessing the disk, or if you start copying a file over the network that is coming from the disk being scanned, StableBit Scanner will suspend the current scan operation and wait for the disk to become free.
Features:
- Hard Drive Monitoring
- File Aware Scanner
- Scan throttling
- Disk overheat protection
- Reading and analysis of SMART data
- Perpetual, scheduled and manual scanning available
The latest release of the add-in now supports Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. It’s a public beta with the following changes:
- Support for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
- Automatic updating uses the built-in WSS add-in update mechanism.
- Supports all the features from 1.0, except file recovery (coming soon).
- The WSS Dashboard interface was written from scratch using WPF.
- The entire back-end was ported from 1.0 to work on Windows Server 2008 R2.
- First public BETA.
Download: StableBit Scanner
