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 version of the add-in has just been released. Changes:
- Ability to turn off automatic scanning, per-disk (see disk settings).
- Fixed crash when adding notification if SMART was not available.
Download: Stablebit Scanner (WHS 2011) | Stablebit Scanner (WHS v1)
