Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
Disk Repair Tools for Intel Macs?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 257483" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>Disk Utility runs a S.M.A.R.T. check. I don't know whether it could run a separate check on an external drive. (Disk Utility's Help, when I typed in smart, suggests that it will.) My machine's drive has four partitions, and I have to click on the main-drive icon to verify its status. Your drive would have to have SMART built in.</p><p></p><p>There's a freeware app called <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/julianmayer/" target="_blank"><strong>SMARTReporter</strong></a> that runs continuous checks on drives. I don't know whether you can set the thing up to work on an external drive, and I don't think it's universal binary. But if you can run it through Rosetta and still have it show up in the menu bar, you'll know at all times (hopefully) whether the drive is dying.</p><p></p><p>You can set it up so it'll send an email to you if anything's wrong, so maybe it would run through Rosetta even without the icon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 257483, member: 3889"] Disk Utility runs a S.M.A.R.T. check. I don't know whether it could run a separate check on an external drive. (Disk Utility's Help, when I typed in smart, suggests that it will.) My machine's drive has four partitions, and I have to click on the main-drive icon to verify its status. Your drive would have to have SMART built in. There's a freeware app called [url="http://homepage.mac.com/julianmayer/"][b]SMARTReporter[/b][/url] that runs continuous checks on drives. I don't know whether you can set the thing up to work on an external drive, and I don't think it's universal binary. But if you can run it through Rosetta and still have it show up in the menu bar, you'll know at all times (hopefully) whether the drive is dying. You can set it up so it'll send an email to you if anything's wrong, so maybe it would run through Rosetta even without the icon. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
Disk Repair Tools for Intel Macs?
Top