Hard drive. Serve cool!

PalickSoft Ltd. today announced the new release of "Hard Drive Temperature" (HDD Temperature) version 1.4, a disk utility which allows you to check the temperature of your hard drive, and prevent data loss because of overheating.

There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is
probably the most common one.
If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. So how do you monitor your HDD temperature to make sure you data is always save?
Simply download HDD Temperature from PalickSoft.
This utility comes in two versions - regular and pro. The regular version is intended for home users who have only single hard-drive and is totally free. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, HDD Temperature checks and monitors the temperature of your hard drives; you can also set the maximum value of drive temperature so that you will be warned should this temperature be exceeded. New important feature – system hibernation in case of hard drive overheating. In this case all your data (including unsaved!) will keep and your hard drive can have a time to cool.

S.M.A.R.T. stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" and is currently the most advanced technology in this field; this technology was developed by HDD manufacturers and is supported by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and many others. HDD Temperature Pro is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and unsaved data.
You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks.

Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature.

Version 1.4 features some considerable improvements.
First off, now the free and professional versions are combines in one distribution package – it functions as the professional version during 30 days and after this period is over (if no registration key has been entered) it starts functioning as the free version.
But the most important thing is that a new ultimate tool called SETUPer has been added. This new helpful feature is used to automate the process of installing HDD Temperature on networked computers and configuring it. All you have to do is select computers in the list and SETUPer will install HDD Temperature on them! At the same time, you can use another window to configure the program and these settings will be distributed to all computers on your network!

HDD Temperature supports a multi-lingual interface, and it is available in more than 5 languages.

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