Adrian, Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk with Disk Utility. (Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility.app)
Disk drives you use with your computer can include S.M.A.R.T. hardware that tests and monitors the drive continuously for potential problems and failures. You can check the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disks in Disk Utility. S.M.A.R.T stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. If the S.M.A.R.T. status for a disk shows "Verified," nothing is wrong with it. If you see "About to Fail" in red letters, you should back up the disk and replace it as soon as possible. In Disk Utility, select a hard disk in the list of disks and volume. Look at the bottom of the window for the S.M.A.R.T. Status. If you want continual indication of your HD status then I recommend that you download and install Smartreporter <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/> and check the icon it puts in your menubar. If that icon changes from green to red it's high time to do a full backup before replacing the HD. On 22/01/2012, at 12:59 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > I am getting a regular TechTools Pro 6. warning on my iMac. > > TechTool Protection Alert! ST31000528ASQ - 6VP3MSM0 on "/dev/disk0" is > exceeding SMART warning levels. The SMART Check setting is configured in the > TechTool Protection Mac OS X System Preferences pane. > > Model Name: iMac 27" > Processor Name: Intel Core i7 > Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz > Number of Processors: 1 > Total Number of Cores: 4 > Memory: 8 GB > > OS X 10.7.2 > > I dont like the look of this at all as it seems to suggest that the HD is > about to die. Can anyone confirm that this may be that case or is there > something else going on. The machine seems to be functioning OK at the > moment. > > > > > Regards, > > > Adrian > > adrianske...@me.com Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel +61 (0) 8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
