Latest Version: 1.0 Beta
Platform: Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 * not tested on Windows 95, 98, ME and NT, but may work.
Release Date: 2009-10-12
Aeo3 HD Smart Lite is a portable software utility that retrieves hard disk drives' health, performance and operation status. This set of information is known as the hard disk drive’s Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.) data.
Hard disks failure is a certainty and can be a traumatic experience.
All drives will gradually degrade over time. However sudden catastrophic failure does happen in the first few months of a new hard disk.
This software was developed with the aim of quickly informing the user of the conditions of their hard disks. With this information, the user can manually backup their valuable data before drive failure occurs.
This software can detect and retrieves information such as Internal Temperature, Power-On Hours, Read-Error Rate, Reallocated Sectors, Uncorrectable Errors and more. BIOS Hard Disk SMART has to be Enabled.
Windows Administrative Privileges is required.
This is a Read-only application. It does NOT write to the Hard Disk.
This is NOT a data recovery software. It does NOT rescue accidentally deleted data.
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Privacy and Security
This software does NOT behave like, contain or support any type or form of Virus, Spyware, Adware, Trojan, Malware, Advertising Agents, Instruments for Spam, Keystroke Loggers and Malicious Proxy.
This software does NOT change any aspects of Microsoft ® Windows ® Security and Firewall features.
Executable Scanned with Anti-Virus
ESET Smart Security Suite v4 (20091029) - OK
Operation Features
Reads Hard Disk's Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.) data
Detects Hard Disk's Model, Serial Number, Firmware, Size, Partitions and Operation Status
List available SMART Attributes and values for each hard disk drives
Shows SMART Threshold, Worst, Standard and RAW Hexadecimal values
Convert relevant Raw Hexadecimal to Decimal values for easy understanding
Detects IDE, SATA, SCSI and independent Hard Disk Controllers
Retrieves Hard Disk Controllers' Operation Status
Regards Low Operational Temperature
as a potential danger
Lite version supports up to 36 hard disk drives
StatusBar shows Hard Disks Temperature (°C), formatted Hard Disk Space and Model
• WRITE ERROR RATE
• SOFT READ ERROR RATE
• DATA ADDRESS MARK ERRORS
• RUN OUT CANCEL
• SOFT ECC CORRECTION
• THERMAL ASPERITY RATE
• FLYING HEIGHT
• SPIN HIGH CURRENT
• SPIN BUZZ
• OFFLINE SEEK PERFORMANCE
• VIBRATION DURING WRITE
• SHOCK DURING WRITE
• DISK SHIFT
• G SENSE ERROR RATE II
• LOADED HOURS
• LOAD UNLOAD RETRY COUNT
• LOAD FRICTION
• LOAD UNLOAD CYCLE COUNT II
• LOAD IN TIME
• TORQUE AMPLIFICATION COUNT
• POWER-OFF RETRACT COUNT
• GMR HEAD AMPLITUDE
• DRIVE TEMPERATURE
• HEAD FLYING HOURS
• READ ERROR RETRY RATE
• FREE FALL PROTECTION
and vendor specific attributes.
About Read/Scan Error Rate (Lower is Better)
Seagate Hard Disks log "Raw" Read Error Rate - before any internal Error-Correcting Code (ECC) has been implemented. This is a different approach when compared to other companies.
Users with Seagate Hard Disks should cross reference "Read Error Rate" with "Hardware ECC Recovered". Usually these two S.M.A.R.T. attributes are equal, meaning all errors were caught and corrected by the hard disk's error correction system.
Manufacturers like Western Digital logs errors after ECC has been applied - giving you actual errors that cannot be corrected by the hard disk. Therefore on Western Digital hard disks, "Read Error Rate" is an indicator of REAL errors.
Why It Was Created
Aeo3 HD Smart Lite was designed to be simple and easy. I developed this tool primarily for myself. A few computer technicians have since been using this program in their department and company as part of their computer maintenance routine.
The followings are the primary objectives for Aeo3 HD Smart Lite.
Quick access of Hard Disk Drive's complete S.M.A.R.T. Data
Check Drive's Temperature, maintains in a healthy zone to avoid Bad Sector occurrence
Allow detection of drive errors (Read Error Rate) and bad sectors (Reallocated Sector Count)
Check the Drive's Operational Hours and swap out those that exceed 26280 hours (or 3 years)
Buying a new drive but not sure it's genuinely new? Check the drives Power-On Hours.
HD SMART LITE 
BIOS Hard Disk SMART has to be Enabled.
Reads Hard Disk's Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.) data
Seagate Hard Disks log "Raw" Read Error Rate - before any internal Error-Correcting Code (ECC) has been implemented. This is a different approach when compared to other companies.
