Thanks to the responders. I'll have a look at the options, though I have been using ONYX, which checks S.M.A.R.T. and has not reported problems--so far.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Tim Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's one you could look at <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/> - > 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. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
