(Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). Unfortunately, as soon as you will be unable to access SOME of your files due to mechanical failure of your hard drive you have only very little time to react and save the most precious data you have not backed up to another physical medium before.įortunately, almost all modern hard drives support a technology called S.M.A.R.T. If you're lucky, you will notice error messages while accessing your files and will be able to save some of your data to another drive before the failing one stops working completely.
Many if not all computer users experience data loss due to hard drive failure at one point in time.
