and funnily enough, just as I was posting that, MacUpdate told me about this!  
Worth clicking on the 'Visit developer's site' link at the top to learn more...

On 15 Feb 2013, at 18:42, Tim Lawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's one you could look at - I'm not recommending it - just that I know of 
> it.
> 
> 
> On 15 Feb 2013, at 18:24, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Fred Weiner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hard drive failure: scary idea. How would one "look into" a hard drive 
>>> failure possibility (with apologies for a non-QS question)?
>> 
>> I’m hardly an expert there. Hopefully someone else will chime in.
>> 
>> One thing you can do is look at the S.M.A.R.T. Status in Disk Utility, 
>> though I’ve heard that isn’t all that reliable. Another thing I’d do is 
>> reboot to the recovery partition (if you’re on 10.7+) or from an 
>> installation DVD, run Disk Utility from there, and run “Verify Disk” on your 
>> system drive. Doing it that way, you’ll have the opportunity to “Repair 
>> Disk” if any problems are found. That only checks for problems with files, 
>> not hardware, but if there are a lot of them, it could indicate a hardware 
>> problem.
>> 
>> There are probably third party tools to help with this, too.
>> 
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