ID Harddisk SmartChecker

ID Harddisk SmartChecker is a scanning, monitoring and checking mechanism for PC, providing optimal functioning parameters.

Pros: Checks status of disks in the computer system. Any change detected in the parameters for checking, alerts are raised. Sound alerts could also be used. Operating temperature is continually monitored. A limit can be set beyond which alerts would be raised and PC shut down. This can be set by user and all active files are saved first.

Several options allow the user to set whether the checker starts on boot up, if events will be logged along with system events, emergency PC hibernation. One could also set if the alerts be in the pop-up form along with sound.

The checker can also monitor if e-mail has arrived and set alerts. Alerts are also set if there has been any change in the disk status, clearly tracking if unauthorized changes have taken place. Logs are another way of recording history of changes. One could store them for as long as required or simply clear them everyday.

The graphic interface is simple and quite easy to use and fairly intuitive. The application itself has a small footprint on the disk.

Cons: While for personal use this is alright, the product would make more sense if computers in a networked can be monitored centrally. That would ease the job of an administrator in a SME kind of set up, even a large enterprise possibly.

E-Mail alerts feel a little out of place as the e-mail application provides alerts anyway. The combination of disk parameters with e-mail arrival alerts does not really make much sense.

Application for a simple role, easy to use and fairly well designed except for the comment above. Overall I would think this is a 3 star application.

ID Harddisk SmartChecker is a utility program designed to maintain the efficient functioning of your computer's system. It uses the S.M.A.R.T. technology to check the status of your disk, detecting and preventing problems from occurring and inflicting damage in any way.
Main Features:
- Checks computer status
- Smartly monitors over your PC
- Offers S.M.A.R.T. disk technology support
- Alerts to changes in the status of your disk
- Shuts down your PC in case of overheating
Detailed features:
- Check the status of your computer, by using the advanced S.M.A.R.T technology. ID Harddisk SmartChecker detects any possible problems that may appear to prohibit in your system's efficient functioning.
- Monitors over your computer, supervising each action and making sure none of them are threatening in any way and that each application runs at their highest parameters.
- Alerts you whenever a change is being made in the status of your disk. It so keeps you informed of all the actions accomplished and also prevents unauthorized modifications from taking place.
- ID Harddisk SmartChecker monitors the temperature in the hard drive, preventing overheating from affecting your system. It lets you know when the temperature is too high and dangerous.
- Allows you to set overheating options, to make ID Harddisk SmartChecker an active tool. In case of dangerous overheating, you can enable it to automatically shutdown your computer for cooling down, saving and securing all of your files before doing this action.
- Notifies you regarding a variety of actions taking place in your computer's system. Setting your personal preferences, you can have it alert you every time you receive mail, by a different sound alert.- ID Harddisk SmartChecker has a simple, convenient graphic interface which is very easy to use. It smartly checks your disk quickly and efficiently and requires minimum space on your disk to operate.