O&O Defrag 25 adds SMART monitoring support, taskbar activity icons

Berlin software developer O&O Software has released O&O Defrag 25 Professional, a major new release of its extremely configurable defrag tool. The major new feature is built-in S.M.A.R.T. functionality, enabling the program to monitor the health of a system’s hard drives and provide alerts. It’s accompanied by a new drive activity display in the Windows taskbar, and a revamped user-interface design. The program’s main new feature is the incorporation of S.M.A.R.T. monitoring into the user interface. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is built into virtually all hard drives and is designed to provide an early-warning system of imminent drive… [Continue Reading]