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DriveSitter is a full-featured HDD analyzation, health diagnostic and background monitoring tool for IDE hard disk drives based upon modern S.M.A.R.T. technology.

DriveSitter reliably detects and forecasts up to 70% of all sudden HDD failures before they happen.

You will be alerted of any unhealthy condition by various notification methods, including emails and network messages.

Read more about S.M.A.R.T. or DriveSitter or download the 30 days shareware version now.

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As the designation implies, you can download these tools totally free and use them as much as you want.

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06/01/09 New Pricing Model for DriveSitter

Today we are happy to introduce a new pricing model of DriveSitter.

Based on the well-proven and fair license model, we completely reworked the volume discount pricing which saves 20% on average for the first 15 licenses - and the saving grows for each additional license!

Moreover, we decided to drop the price for a single business license by more than 10%.

While we offer even more attractive volume discounts for business as well as for personal licenses, we are continuing our idea of a family license to support not only you but all of your first grade relatives living in one household by a single, effordable license.

Still, all licenses are lifetime licenses and do not require renewal.

Again, the changes in bullet points:

	More attractive volume discount pricing
	Dropped price for a single business license to 33.45 USD (excl. V.A.T.)
	Continue the family license offer to an affordable price.
	All licenses are still lifetime licenses and do not require renewal.

Check out our price calculator or visit our order page.

03/30/08 Out Now: DriveSitterPro v1.6

Finally, the technical development requested its tribute for the most drastic and in-deep changes in the life of DriveSitter so far - and DriveSitter catched up with it!

After a year of work, we are very excited to publish a new update of DriveSitter. The core technology has completely been reworked and we spent some time not only to create best DriveSitter ever.

We are sure that you'll love the new features:

	Support of Western Digital USB drives.
	Windows Vista readyness.
	Never seen before FirstGlance™ tray icon tooltips.
	Support of hot-plugging.
	New "Count Increase" test.

The new version of DriveSitter Pro supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista, but we do not let down the old timers yet: DriveSitter for Windows 98, ME and NT4 is still available on our download page.

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

This update is again free of charge for all current licensees of previous versions of DriveSitter!

03/23/07 DriveSitter v1.5 released!

We just released a new update v1.5 of DriveSitter that comes with some exciting new features:

	DriveSitter now supports execution of S.M.A.R.T. Self-Tests that thoroughly check the electrical and mechanical parts of the drive.
	If your drive supports S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test logs, DriveSitter displays a Self-Test result summary for every test ever ran on the drive.
	Visual indicators for drive fitness and performance allows you to judge the drive state at a glance.
	The GUI of DriveSitter was improved and has been reworked to provide a unified look and more clarity.
	We added many small additions, enhancements and some bug fixes.

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

As usual, the update is free of charge for all licensees of preceding versions of DriveSitter!

09/27/05 DriveSitter v1.4 released!

Here we are with a new update v1.4 of DriveSitter with some long awaited new features:

	DriveSitter now supports up to 24 S.M.A.R.T. capable IDE devices on Windows NT4/2000/XP.
	You can now view the stock data in a convenient Data Viewer. It even displays temperature values.
	An alert advisory text is appended to the S.M.A.R.T. test reports and optionally added to message box and email alert notifications. No gory details, just plain English.
	The attribute time series graph is visually improved with a colored traceline for easier trend interpretation and data point mouse attraction for easier data review.
	We have improved many visual components to support XP styles.
	Some minor fixes and enhancements.

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

01/23/05 DriveSitter v1.3.5 released!

DriveSitter v1.3.5.0 has just been released and comes with some improvements and additions.

	Capability to shutdown, suspend or hibernate the computer system on alert.
	More information on partitions: Creation date/time of NTFS volumes, bootability, subst'ed volumes.
	Optional S.M.A.R.T. status report generation on every poll.
	Usage of one central message box dialog.
	Debug logging capability.
	Some minor fixes and enhancements.

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

09/27/04 DriveSitter v1.3.1 released!

DriveSitter v1.3.1.0 has just been released!
In this minor update, we added capability for advanced status report creation, per-manufacturer S.M.A.R.T. attributes, fixed some bug and changed some annoyances.

	DriveSitter now supports per-manufacturer S.M.A.R.T. attribute detection. This new capability allows us for detection of manufacturer proprietary attributes.
	Voluminous status reports with selectable content can be created in plain-text or HTML format.
	The manufacturer detection has been improved.
	Auto-resize of lists have been fixed and improved.
	Some minor fixes and enhancements.

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

06/12/04 DriveSitter v1.3 released!

DriveSitter v1.3.0.0 has just been released!
Since the HDD temperature is the fastest varying S.M.A.R.T. attribute by far and is very important to prevent damage, fatal failures and data loss caused by overheating, Most of the new features concentrate on improving DriveSitter's HDD temperature handling.

	DriveSitter now implements a separate stock for the HDD temperature and separately defineable polling intervals.
	Intelligent temperature polling intervals provide protection from unnoticed HDD overheating while conserving system resources.
	The HDD temperatures can optionally be displayed in the system tray.
	Automatic downtime detection for temperature attributes improves the quality of forecasts on the HDD temperature development over time.
	Some minor fixes and enhancements.

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

04/17/04 DriveSitter v1.2.0.1 released!

DriveSitter v1.2.0.1 has just been released to fix some bugs and shortcomings of version 1.2.0:

	Correctly calculates hard disk drive capacities > 137.5 GB
	Optionally do not poll S.M.A.R.T. while device is in power saving mode (sleeps)
	Minor fixes.

03/05/04 DriveSitter v1.2 released!

DriveSitter v1.2 has just been released and comes with new and exiting featured:

	Minimize false T.E.C. Date warnings by configurable T.E.C. alert thresholds.
	Review advanced details of each volume.
	Log alerts to an alert log file, in the local events log and any event log in a network (WinNT4/2000/XP) for centralized alerts review.
	Stay up to date by the now build-in internet updater.
	XP theme support, customizable toolbar, and more...

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

01/11/04 New American Reseller + New Pricing Model

We are happy to launch our Online-Store, hosted by our new American reseller eSellerate. Customers outside the European Union who use our online store to order by credit card will not pay V.A.T. markup anymore.
Due to the new situation, we introduce a new pricing model for all our products. We hope that this new model is as fair and attractive as the old one was.

12/01/03 DriveSitter v1.1 Invites Guests!
12/05/03 DriveSitter v1.11 BUGFIXES

S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and monitoring for everyone! This is probably the most exciting new feature for business use of DriveSitter v1.1 on Win NT4/2000/XP: You do not need administrative privileges anymore to monitor your HDDs with DriveSitter - even a guest account will do it.

But that's not the only new feature: DriveSitter now displays life statistics of your HDDs, offers two new and very useful visualization modes, 5 temperature scales, optional raw S.M.A.R.T. values in hex and more!

Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

11/18/03 ScaleTrans v1.04 + price cut by 28%

ScaleTrans v1.04 (free, minor update) has just been released by now. The updates includes significant speed improvement on calculation of huge empirical datasets, some GUI updates, an update of the setup engine and the license scheme.

More good news: Prices for ScaleTrans have been reviewed and significantly reduced by 28%! As before, ScaleTrans is free for private use.

If you are a psychologist or diagnostician working with standard scales and do not already know ScaleTrans, just try it out now!

11/18/03 DriveSitter v1.0 Shareware now online!

We are proud to release the first version of DriveSitter, a brand new HDD health diagnostic and monitoring tool for IDE hard disk drives. Try it 30 days for free and tell us what you think!

ScaleTrans is a software tool for professional psychologists or diagnosticians working with psychological standard scales.

ScaleTrans converts standard scales like T-scale, Z-scale, IQ-scale, Stanine, percentage rank etc. and allows the creation of advanced user-defined scales either based on theoretical distributions or empirical data.

Read more about ScaleTrans or download the free personal version now.

Eine deutsche Version von ScaleTrans ist hier verfügbar.

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