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Roman Rtichshev

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Acronis^® Drive Monitor^™

Why should you use Acronis Drive Monitor?

We all depend on instant access to data stored on our hard drives – buried inside PC laptops, workstations and servers – but those disks are vulnerable to severe failures that can cause you to lose business and personal data. Acronis Drive Monitor alerts you to problems that may indicate an imminent failure so you can be prepared to handle it without data loss.

According to a significant major study of disk drive failures conducted by Google, Inc. of 100,000 of its own drives, between 6% and 8% of drives fail each year, with the highest percentage of failures occurring in years two and three.

Acronis Drive Monitor checks disk health in the following three categories and reports deviations from normal operation to users, giving them an opportunity to replace affected drives prior to a potential total failure:

• State and health of physical drive (including temperature, seek error rate, spin-up time and more than 20 other indicators) via a disk-resident monitoring function called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is presented in a understandable form. Acronis Drive Monitor also supports other storage, such as non-S.M.A.R.T.-compatible RAID systems, via scripts.

• Critical events Acronis Recovery Expert is a highly reliable data partition and disk recovery tool that prepares you to tackle and repair the results of a personal error, hardware or software failure, virus attack or hacker's intrusive destruction, fast.

• State of disk backups. A comprehensive array of expert-level features gives users the control they need to maximize disk use. You can merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data. It also lets you quickly reorganize a hard drive's structure.

Early warning to save your data

Acronis Drive Monitor gives users extra time to react in order to save data contained on disk devices and to arrange for their replacements. When Acronis Drive Monitor sees a problem, it immediately generates an email or onscreen alert describing the specific finding. Context-sensitive help explains what the alerts mean. Weekly reports summarize the electromechanical health of all the disks under Acronis Drive Monitor management.

Integrates with Acronis Home and Business products for greater data safety

Users of the latest versions of Acronis True Image Home and Acronis Backup and Security 2010 PC backup and recovery software and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10* business software can take advantage of Acronis Drive Monitor’s ability to trigger an immediate, automated backup if any disk shows signs of imminent failure.

Features and Benefits

• Automatically checks for disk problems

  Works on any Windows PC, workstation or server.

• Monitors Event logs

  Flags events that may indicate that data is in danger so you can back it up.

• Receive alerts immediately

  Sends an email and displays a message on the Windows taskbar when it uncovers a disk-related problem.

• Weekly status reports

  Shows the electromechanical health of all your drives in one report.

• Can support RAID drives too

  Scripting allows you to monitor RAID controllers not using S.M.A.R.T. monitoring technology. An Acronis forum acts as a clearinghouse for users to share scripts.

• Three kinds of support

  An Acronis forum, a knowledge base with dozens of articles and a built-in help function are available for this easy-to-use software application.

*Click here to learn more about how Acronis Drive Monitor integrates with the latest Acronis Home and Business products.

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