DiskFailure has a single purpose, to warn you about a potential or imminent hard disk failure before the disk is rendered nonfunctional/data is lost.It will warn you trough alert dialogs, growl notifications and the menubar icon, it also features* a detailed list of your drives and the monitored parameters for each. It also keeps track of these parameters trough all it's lifetime to provide a cumulative slate of past history for any disk device connected. HDD and SSD drives are handled differently but all are supported if connected either trough ATA/SATA USB/FireWire. The automatic check frequency is 11 minutes, however if the drive is sleeping it will not perform the SMART test as to not wake it up, it will also do this if it is not sleeping and the sleep timer for that specific drive is above 11 minutes as to not prevent it from sleeping, for manually triggered checks this does not apply.
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