Matthew is an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator, and an Apple Certified System Administrator. The name Volitans comes from the scientific name of the Red Lionfish. Volitans Software was founded on February 22, 2007, by Matthew Butch, to sell SMART Utility. It can be purchased online or in an innovative way: within SMART Utility itself through its embedded web store. SMART Utility is available in a variety of licenses including a personal license for $25 (USD) and a family license for $40 (USD). * Supports logging all information to a log file for verifying SMART data * Supports scanning individual RAID drives in addition to non-RAIDed drives * Displays more detailed information in separate windows, including capabilities, all available attributes, and the past five errors * Displays important information in the main window, such as drive model, capacity, power on hours, temperature, bad sector counts, and error counts and types * Displays easy to read overall SMART status with color coded text * Displays all supported drives and their partitions * Updated Growl framework to 1.2.3, which fixes some bugs * Updated smartctl engine to 5.42, which supports many more drives * Reorganized Growl notifications (removed scan and update complete, added drive name and partitions) * Fixed a bug preventing the overall status from displaying properly on 10.8 * Added Developer ID signing for Gatekeeper on 10.8 * Added SMART Utiilty.log file to crash reports to provide more information * Added email notifications for app and extra And, while the raw information can be viewed on the command line with smartmontools (which is what SMART Utility is based on), SMART Utility presents it in an easy to read format, as well as running its internal pre-fail algorithm. This pre-fail detection can save precious data before SMART has determined that the drive has failed. SMART Utility not only displays the individual attributes to see their status and information, but it also uses an internal algorithm based on those attributes to detect drives failing before SMART indicates it has failed. SMART Utility is different from other drive utilities, such as Disk Utility, which only read the overall SMART Status. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive. SMART Utility can read and display these attributes. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is failing. SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements (called attributes) of a hard drive’s operation. The new features include email notifications, better drive support, and 10.8 support. Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Volitans software has announced the release of SMART Utility 3.1, a significant update to the hard drive diagnostic application.
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