Acronis Drive Monitor checks disk health within the following 3 classes and reports deviations from traditional operation to users, giving them a chance to exchange affected drives before a possible total failure:

Critical events which will indicate an increased risk for information safety, even when S.M.A.R.T. output information shows no abnormalities. include: failed browse or write operations which may indicate faulty hardware or drivers.

State and health of physical drive via a disk-resident monitoring operate known as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is presented in an exceedingly understandable kind. Acronis Drive Monitor conjointly supports different storage, like non-S.M.A.R.T.

State of disk backups. Acronis Drive Monitor users who conjointly already use the most recent Acronis home or business product, like Acronis True Image Home, Acronis Backup and Security 2010 and Acronis Backup & Recovery® ten, are going to be alerted if the most recent backup has failed or if a backup has not been created for a short time. Otherwise, users are going to be automatically reminded of the necessity for a backup whenever a possible laborious drive drawback is detected.

Acronis Drive Monitor provides users additional time to react so as to save lots of information contained on disk devices and to rearrange for his or her replacements. When Acronis Drive Monitor sees a haul, it immediately generates an email or onscreen alert describing the precise finding.