![]() ![]() However, I prefer the "pro" tools designed specifically for this type of task. I have personally used the built-in Disk Util to get the S.M.A.R.T. ![]() The tool displays Battery Health, Cycles, and Condition. Apart from this, iStat Menu also offers an insightful battery monitoring tool that helps you keep abreast with the battery vitals. (Free for monitoring, paid for data recovery) iStat Menus comes in handy if you want to add advanced stats like Fan Speed, Memory Consumption, and Network Indicators. To get comprehensive reporting and more granular data as well as thresholds that will warn you of impending failures, look to tools specifically made for this type of task. has a number of attributes that Disk Util doesn't monitor nor report on. This is about as useful as closing the barn door after the horse escaped. It tells you something is wrong, but not what and only after something has failed. Status = Verified" is nothing more than the "check engine light" on a car's dashboard. While your script in and of itself is good, Disk Util's "S.M.A.R.T. Disk Utility is attempting to send a request to the drive to report back on it's status and iStat Menu is (for a lack of a better word) grabbing the result no result comes back - thus it's "Unsupported." This is because there is a system service residing at the hardware layer that's intercepting responses from the drive's S.M.A.R.T. I checked with Disk UtilityĪnd I saw S.M.A.R.T. It's not something that can be disabled.Īfter I installed iStat Menus my launchd job immediately threw me a In this situation, iStat Menus is running perfectly, but hidden from view. It is a technology built into the firmware of your HDD or SDD that reports on the health of your drive. This is because the menu bar is full, and can not fit other items. The program is quick and responsive-the overhead its monitoring tools add to your CPU is practically unnoticeable-and I have yet to experience any crashes or “spinning beachballs” while using it.Nothing can disable S.M.A.R.T. In addition to the new battery status item, iStat Menus 3 adds some enhancements to the existing modules, such as the network item’s stacked mode (which shows the upload- and download-speed graphs stacked on top of one another, instead of one overlapping the other) a fan-speed option in the sensors item your public IP address in the network item and sun and moon information in the date and time item. The configuration options for each status item are plentiful, and the program does a good job of presenting them in such a way so as not to make the options and information overwhelming. Disabling an extra is as simple as dragging it off the menubar (or toggling a slider in the iStat Menus settings window).Ĭlick any of the new menu items to view a menu, tailored to suit your tastes, containing a plethora of information about various components of your system. With the third-party utility, Mac users can, at a glance, confirm network, disk, memory, CPU, sensor, battery, and power performance metrics. Status items can be rearranged in the menubar just as you would Mac OS X’s own menu extras-by holding down the Command key while you click-drag an item to the left or right. These were all present in the previous version, but the latest version adds a battery extra to the mix. IStat Menus’ menus items include monitors for CPU, memory, and disk usage disk and network activity hardware sensors and the date and time. ![]()
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