Steps to protect Mac drive from failure by scaning its bad sectors?

Have you ever faced the problem of bad sectors in Mac drive? It just takes five minutes for some tricks to analyze and maintain your Mac drive health?

Today, in this advanced digital world, devices like computers, mobiles etc. are becoming important part of our life as we keep all our confidential, official and personal data(photos, songs, video etc) in them. So, it is necessary to take care of our drive's health and protect it from failure and hence for preventing against data loss.

Here, we will discuss about assessing health status of your Mac drives to prevent from crashes and failure incidents. We know that the hard drives are prone to crash and no one can predict the life of a drive. But, today we have enough techniques to work upon it for making it less vulnerable to failure.

A drive has various sectors that store data packets in it. Basically a 'sector' is a unit of information stored on your hard disk. The data stored in sectors (standard size of 512 bytes) in sequential fashion, that helps in accessing data easily and fastly.

We all know the affects of hard drive failure could be very devastating, particularly if it had been a long time since you backed up your important Mac data. I want to add here one more important technology of creating clone or backup of your Mac drive or data regularly. By using cloning method regularly one would feel free from such bad surprises of drive crash or corruption that cause your data loss and sometimes beyond recovery level.

   

However it is also equally important to regularly check your Mac drive status using some relaible smart tools that helps you to maintain your drive health and can scan for bad sectors. These tools let you know the problems and areas that required fixing before it start generating troubles.Such a diagnostic tool is capable in scanning your Mac drive for bad sectors and check your internal drive S.M.A.R.T status.

A very well known application for analyzing your Mac drive is Stellar Drive toolbox. Specifically, the module “Drive Monitor”, assesses the drive performance, scans for bad sectors. It allows you to set preferences for the monitoring tasks. It provide you the capability to perform all above mentioned process and create performance report of your Mac drive and hence shows health of drive.

There are many types of hard drives available in market but all are vulnerable to crash after a while. Some common signs of drive failure are:-

• Sometimes one can predict it if an audible clicking sound comes that signify the problem in movement of spindle over the disk or spinning is not smooth.

• While in other cases, a drive that can be fail will reported errors during boot up or unexplained glitches.

You should follow the preventive measures even if your Mac drive isn’t showing the signs of crash or failure. I mean it is always good to take preventive steps towards your drive and data before it gets late and results affect your productivity. One must scan his Mac disk at least a couple of times in a year.

Note: However, if you suspect that your Mac drive can fail then your first step must be to create clone of your Mac drive, as soon as possible. Because in such a drive, risk of losing data, grows with time.

The above mentioned software i.e Drive Monitor tool for maintaining your Mac drive health performs three major tasks as follows:

• It give details of your internal drive SMART attributes.
• It scans your Mac drive for bad sectors.
• One can view the performance status of Mac drive with the help of graphical representation.

This utility comes in a package alongwith 13 other Mac optimization utilities, integrated as a whole called Drivetool box. It consists all required Mac maintenance utilities with some great applications like Mac partition manager, drive clone, speedup Mac, defragmentation tool etc. This whole package comes in $99 which is a complete optimization package for your Mac OS X.

For more details one can visit: http://www.drivetoolbox.com/