Acronis Drive Monitor is a free tool for monitoring many important parameters of hard drives that may indicate wear and tear or upcoming failure. It allows the user to, for example, copy valuable data at the right time, saving it from loss. The program uses S.M.A.R.T.

hard drive error monitoring and notification technology to provide information about the number of start/stop cycles, total operating time, temperature, number of detected and repaired errors and several other parameters. If there is any problem, Acronis Drive Monitor informs you via the icon in the tray and also offers the option of sending an e-mail with notification. The tools support RAID controllers that do not support S.M.A.R.T.

Acronis Drive Monitor also offers the ability to monitor the Windows event log for critical events (file system failures, failed read and write operations, copy errors, etc.) that may also predict upcoming hard drive problems. The tool works with the same vendor's data backup software to warn you of a failed backup operation, etc. The tool also works with the same vendor's data backup software to warn you of a failed backup operation and so on.