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Reset to default - select this item to cancel all changes you have made before (ignored
parameters, changed Raw offset values).

3.2.3 Events

The Events tab contains a table with event logs. It shows which S.M.A.R.T. parameter has changed,
its previous and new values.

Double click will open a window with the detailed information on the event.

3.2.4 Health calculating

Why calculating a disk's health status?

The calculated hard drive's health shown as percentage provides you a better visual
representation of S.M.A.R.T. related problems

A health status warns you of a disk degradation, when S.M.A.R.T. reports a problem

This will help you to protect your data before your disk's failure.

How to calculate a disk's health?

Critical parameters:

Initially a hard disk has 100% health condition.

All S.M.A.R.T. parameters considered by Acronis Drive Monitor as critical for a hard drive (if they are
available for monitoring, it depends on the manufacturer), decrease the health of your disk. Such
attributes have a predefined weight and a maximum limit value (see a Table 1 below).

A limit defines how much the attribute may decrease an overall health value. A weight of an attribute
defines how important the parameter's value decreasing affects the disk's health.
The overall disk health is calculated by a formula below: