SMART Utility

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Company

Volitans Software was founded by Matthew J. Butch on February 22, 2007, and operates from Pennsylvania.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Compatibility

The product page lists support for OS X 10.9 through 10.15, while its current download link is labeled for versions 10.9 to 26.0.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Drive details

It displays drive model, capacity, power-on hours, temperature, bad-sector counts, error counts, and error types.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Drive support

The app supports HDDs and SSDs, and has limited support for external drives.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Early warning

Its internal algorithm analyzes drive attributes to detect potential failure before the drive’s overall SMART status indicates failure.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

External drive limit

Some external drives require the optional SAT SMART driver, and some enclosures do not expose the commands needed to read SMART data.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

False positives

The maker says its failing-drive algorithm is usually accurate but can sometimes produce false positives.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Monitoring

It supports background scanning and can show drive information in the menu bar.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Notifications

It supports Growl notifications when installed and email notifications when configured.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Purpose

SMART Utility reads and displays hard drive SMART attributes and can run a drive’s built-in self-test.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

RAID support

It supports scanning OS X software RAID drives and drives in many RAID enclosures and cards.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Reports

Users can log drive information, save reports for later viewing, and print reports.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Support

The maker offers support by email or Twitter and provides a SMART Utility FAQ.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

Underlying technology

SMART Utility parses output from the open-source smartmontools package, which performs the SMART attribute scanning.volitans-software.com · read 11 Oct 2026

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