{"id":4038,"date":"2012-03-13T18:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2012-03-13T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:40:31","slug":"is-your-hard-drive-failing-find-out-now-with-cloudeight-freeware-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/is-your-hard-drive-failing-find-out-now-with-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Hard Drive Failing? Find Out Now With This Cloudeight Freeware Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can do things like you\u2019re doing them now or you can do them the way they should be done. We opted for the former and we both almost got burned. Had we not had our drives backed-up with mirror-image backups, we would have still been putting our computers back together. Really! If we had to start from scratch now, it would take us months to get our computer back to the way we like them \u2013 and need them. We had no warning our hard drives were about to fail. The only warnings we had were the noises the hard drives were making \u2013 clunk, clink, clunk. By the time you hear rattling, clinking, clunking noises, it\u2019s too late \u2013 and it\u2019s too bad.<\/p>\n

So wouldn\u2019t it be nice if there was a program you could download free that would tell you well in advance if one of your hard drives (or your only hard drive, Heaven forbid) was about to go belly up. Well now there is such a program and it\u2019s free. It costs you nothing but it just may save you a ton \u2013 a ton of time for sure. If you wait until your hard drives starts making awful noises, you may have only a few hours to start rescuing data. And if you mirror-image your hard drive \u2013 you may be mirroring damaged sectors and a kaput boot sector (like TC did). The program you need to install is also a freeware goodie. It\u2019s called Acronis Drive Monitor.<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019re a little miffed that Acronis wants your email address and name, city and state. But you can (and we\u2019re not telling you do this) use Marty Finkle for your name, \u00a0yeahrightyoucanhavemyemailaddress@laughingstock.com<\/a>\u00a0as your email address, and Kansas as your state. Of course if you\u2019re from Romania, or other places, you don\u2019t have to give a state. You\u2019ll have to give your country. We suggest Moldova \u2013 if it\u2019s on the list. You get what we\u2019re saying here?<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to bring in the program\u2019s developers and let them yammer for a few words. Then we\u2019ll get to the only thing you really care about \u2013 where to download the darn program \u2013 right? Yeah, we know, but some folks like to read, so we have to give them something to read, right? Get it? Read\/Right? Haha!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a description of Acronis Drive Manager from Acronis himself (herself, themselves?):<\/p>\n

\u201cAcronis\u00ae Drive Monitor\u2122 is a free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why should you use Acronis Drive Monitor?<\/em><\/p>\n

We all depend on instant access to data stored on our hard drives \u2013 buried inside PC laptops, workstations and servers \u2013 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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:\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trust us, Acronis is not shy with words. They ramble on and on and on, in the program, in person and on their Web site. But we ramble on no more.<\/p>\n

Our freeware goodie today is\u00a0Acronis Drive Manager<\/a><\/span>. It\u2019s free, it\u2019s useful, and it\u2019s spyware\/adware\/badware free. What more can you want for nothing?\u00a0You can download Acronis Drive Manager \u2013 or learn more about it \u2013 from this page<\/span><\/a>. I hope your drives are better than mine! I have a secondary hard drive that\u2019s about to fail \u2013 really!<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

You folks still don\u2019t believe we test all this stuff, do you? See? I really do have a hard drive about to fail. Luckily it\u2019s a secondary drive \u2013 and it\u2019s backed up.<\/p>\n

Stuff you want to know:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acronis Drive Monitor
\n<\/strong>Windows XP, Windows Vista (32\/64bit), Windows 7 (32\/64bit)
\nA program that monitors your hard drive and warns you of problems or impending hard drive failure
\nDownload size: 18MB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can do things like you\u2019re doing them now or you can do them the way they should be done. We opted for the former and we both almost got burned. Had we not had our drives backed-up with mirror-image backups, we would have still been putting our computers back together. Really! If we had to start from\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}