I bought some Maxtor 200GB drives from Fry's on sale the other day to replace a 45GB RAID 1 array I keep inportant data on. (Home array)<BR><BR>I have never been trusting of Maxtor, so I got a copy of ...

From what I can tell SMART analysis, as supplied by testing tools comes in 2 forms, simple and complex. "Simple" reporting seems to be used on tools like Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter.

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.