Drive Maintenance Software for Spindle Drives?

Back in the day I seem to remember a software package -- maybe Disk Keeper or something similar -- that purported to maintain data and drive integrity on conventional storage drives. As I recall, it would periodically move a chunk of data, clean the data blocks, refresh the formatting tracks on the disk itself, and, if everything was okay, move the data back onto the newly refreshed part of the drive.

Now, that may not be necessary or even desirable nowadays, but I'm wondering if there's any software that looks after drive/data integrity on the fly.

I have several data disks, each manually mirrored with an ejectible companion drive, but I'm always wondering about how the drives are doing. If I knew ahead of time I could head off potential disasters.

Some of my drives (being replaced over the next three months) have 85,000 hours of uptime and have been in service without issue for 8.5 years.

It's a no-brainer that those need to be replaced, but ironically, my newer enterprise drives seem to be having the most (minor) issues.

If there isn't a decent drive monitor/maintainer software that runs all the time, what's the best way to check drive health in a way that's more potentially useful than mere SMART data?

Thanks,

--sohosources

Hard Drive Sentinel is one that I have used in the past. It is not freeware however. CrystalDiskInfo actually contains some alerting and email notification functionality that I use and it is free. Tweaking is necessary so that the default 50 degree alert threshold doesnt get triggered if running a hotter drive. As for triggering actions, these solutions only alert so manual intervention is still required. I am curious if anybody has come across something more automated

Yeah Hard Drive Sentinel is a handy bit of software. Has a lot of useful features. I like the deep dive HDD sector fix/testing you can do with it. Also use Crystal disk to switch off or boost the AAM on older drives or tweak the power management.

But as for auto monitoring and maintenance..nah. Not bothered.