Spiff SMART Monitor

Spiff SMART Monitor is an application that installs a service to collect drive status information with the help of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). It reveals the S.M.A.R.T. attributes to give you a better idea of your machine's performance and help you look for ways to boost it.

The setup procedure is speedy and shouldn't impose any difficulties, thanks to the fact that it has familiar wizard step. However, you must have .NET Framework installed, since it depends on this platform to work properly.

At startup, the utility asks you to enter the administrative credentials in order to continue and gather data about your hard disk, otherwise it won't function.

The analysis job shouldn't take a long time, after which you can find out the ID, description, status, current and worst value, threshold, along with the raw words of each attribute. These properties focus on the available CPU and RAM, free disk space, wireless network connection, cooling device, device temperature, and other aspects.

The main control panel has a simple design and layout, showing a graphical representation of the evolution of the attributes, in addition the previously mentioned data.

Spiff SMART Monitor can be integrated into the Windows autostart lineup, so that it runs by default every time you boot your computer. It's possible to change the status checkup frequency (minutes) and number of samples to keep, input enterprise addresses to send ping commands, ping any number of IP address to check the connectivity strength, create a list with processes, as well as send automatic email notifications via SMTP.

Although it hasn't received updates for a long time, the software utility remained stable throughout its runtime in our tests, without hanging, crashing or prompting errors. It used a decent amount of CPU and RAM to retrieve hard disk information.

Taking everything into consideration, Spiff SMART Monitor offers a straightforward method for analyzing the S.M.A.R.T. attributes of your hard disk to figure out what makes it tick and come up with new methods to resolve issues and boost performance.