SMART requires a hard disk that supports the feature and some sort of software to check the status of the drive. All major drive manufacturers now incorporate the SMART feature into their drives, and most newer PC systems and motherboards have BIOS routines that will check the SMART status of the drive.
So do operating systems such as Windows 98.
If your PC doesn't have built-in SMART support, some utility software (like Norton Utilities and similar packages) can be set up to check the SMART status of drives. This is an important point to remember: the hard disk doesn't generate SMART alerts, it just makes available status information. That status data must be checked regularly for this feature to be of any value.
