Open source hard drive monitor and smartctl front-end HDD Guardian has been updated to version 0.7.0 with some welcome new features. The program detects even more drives, but if they’re still not found it’s now possible to add them manually. If a drive is failing, or its temperature is too high, you can have the program play a sound or power off the PC (other options include displaying a popup message and sending an email). The drives event log -- temperatures, SMART issues and more -- may be exported as a CSV file in a click or two. A smarter… [Continue Reading]