Giveaway websites are there to provide valuable critics and comments to the software authors (by the users that try the software).
Most of the time, I would agree. But most of the time in those cases, it is to introduce new versions and expose potentially new customers to those new versions. I don't know what is happening in this case. Also, it seems to me if the developer wanted to do that, they could easily do it through their own site. So again, not sure what is happening here.
To be sure, I fully understand, accept and agree with the concept and the process for shareware and freeware. In fact, unlike many, I typically pay for shareware or donate to the developers of freeware for programs I like and continue to use. So you are preaching to the choir in that respect. I totally agree with it.
But I am talking about this specific disk scanner program and the giveaway for it. Neither makes much sense to me. The criticism about SMART, for example. That seems to go back several years. This latest version mentions nothing about it. It just says it "Fix some minor erros". The
change log, which sadly, stops with V4.2.0 mentions nothing about S.M.A.R.T. So it seems the developers were not encouraged to add it after users complained, as we might have hoped.
In fact, if you look at the
Macrorit Disk Scanner Resources page, there is a link there for Check disk S.M.A.R.T. info. But if you follow it, it talks about checking the S.M.A.R.T. status via a cmd prompt, through a PowerShell prompt, or with CrystalDiskInfo - a much more capable
competing product! ???
If you look
here where the company compares it to other products, it claims,
bad disk sectors are the main cause of blue screen errors on Windows computer
"The main cause"? No they aren't.
And why are they comparing it to Defraggler? Defraggler is a defragment too. Macrorit is not a defragment too. And it claims Defraggler "
scans the disk for hardware faults and corrupt disk sectors and further reports to the user". Ummm, no it doesn't.
If the software is good, it will receive very positive comments and the software will gain good reputation.
Agreed. But again - that did not happen here with 3 reviews, all negative.
No doubt, I appreciate you posting this offer. But there are other more capable, more extensive programs, including CrystalDiskInfo (which is free and upgradeable, BTW), SeaTools, WD Lifeguard (for WD drives), HDDScan, or DiskCheckUP.
To me, running windows own Error Checking or
chkdsk /r every so often and/or perhaps CrystalDiskInfo (since is reports the S.M.A.R.T. status) is all I need. So I am just not finding any incentive to even try this.
If Macrorit did report the S.M.A.R.T. status, and I didn't have a good S.M.A.R.T. status app like CrystalDiskInfo, then it would make sense to try it out. But it doesn't.
Sorry.
