| SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting | | | | time to take preventive measures like backing up the |
| Technology) is a hard drive pre-warning system, | | | | data or replacing the hard drive. If you are getting |
| usually installed in system BIOS to check and report | | | | errors that SMART has detected an error and the |
| hard drive defects before they could result in ultimate | | | | failure is imminent, it is suggested that you should |
| failure. SMART analyzes the hard drive based on | | | | immediately backup all the data stored on the hard |
| same reliability factors and warn users against | | | | drive and replace it. However, if the hard drive is |
| predictable failures. These failures could occur due to | | | | completely failed and you haven't taken any |
| gradual wear and tear, overheating, increased noise | | | | preventive step, you can seek Hard Drive Recovery |
| level, excessive bad sectors and other similar factors. | | | | expert's help to recover data from such physically |
| Thus, the user or system administrator gets enough | | | | crashed drive. |