For users who currently have SMART Utility installed before upgrading to 10.15, it will run fine.
For users who are installing SMART Utility for the first time on 10.15, SMART Utility will not run. We are hard at work on a fix, which should be out by the end of the week.
Our current licensing and purchasing system, eSellerate, is shutting down June 30th. We are working on implementing a new one, Paddle, but we will likely not get it out by that date.
So if you are thinking of purchasing, do so now! Otherwise you’ll still have 30 days to test out SMART Utility, which will cover you until the new system is ready, along with Version 4.0.
SMART Utility 3.2.5 has been released, which fixes a couple of small bugs.
NOTE: This is the last free version. Version 4.0 will be out in July, and will be a paid upgrade, unless you purchased after May 1st, 2016 and then it is free.
NOTE: This is the last version for 10.9 (Mavericks) and 10.10 (Yosemite). Version 4.0 will only support 10.11 (El Capitan) and above.
Download for 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave)
Here’s the full release notes:
– Enabled Hardened Runtime for better security
– Fixed bug where SMART Utility would display Time Machine snapshot volume
– Fixed bug where SMART Utility would display duplicate boot drives
– Fixed random crash on first launch
– Removed Growl support for notifications
– Updated to smartctl 7.0 which supports many more drives
– Updated to Sparkle 1.21.3
So far, SMART Utility is fully compatible with Mac OS X Catalina 10.15. This includes the kernel extension to read external drives.
With the notarization requirement, and the changing of how kernel extensions are permitted, there might be additional work. However, right now it completely works.
This was only tested on Beta 1, so this could change with future Beta’s and the General Release.
If you run into any issues while using Catalina, please contact us!
Update: SMART Utility also works Beta 2. There have been conflicting reports about the external driver however.
We wanted to give an update on SMART Utility. As you probably know, version 4.0 is much delayed. This lead to a re-evaluation of the roadmap. Version 4.0 was too ambitious for a single release, especially re-designing the interface. So the revise plan is this:
Version 3.3 (out in a few weeks): Some new features and a bunch of bug fixes
Version 4.0 (out in six months): Re-work the algorithm to better match todays drives
Version 5.0 (out in one to two years): Re-design the interface
While a new interface is the sexy feature, the core algorithm work is much more important. This roadmap is much more achievable, and since there will be point releases in between, better updates instead of delaying everything.
Please send us any questions via email ([email protected]) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/VolitansSW)
We tested SMART Utility against the most recent beta build of MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) and its nearly fully supported. Everything works except dark mode.
While version 4 remains in development but still delay, we will released a small update to version 3 that will bring support for dark mode.
SMART Utility 3.2.4 has been released, which fixes a couple of small bugs.
Download for 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra), and 10.13 (High Sierra)
Here’s the full release notes:
– Added support for NVMe drives in newer Macs
– Fixed crash on first install of SAT SMART Driver
– Updated to Sparkle 1.18.1
– Updated to smarctl 6.6 which supports many more drives
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Work is still progressing much slower than expected on SMART Utility 4.0, so the previously announced release date needs to be pushed back. The new interface what has been taking the longest to implement.
Update: At this point, setting a specific date only leads to disappointment. Work is still progressing, just not as fast as desired. When SMART Utility 4.0 is near ready, a Beta release will be announced.
SMART Utility was tested on High Sierra and found fully supported. No issues were discovered during testing, though that could change with the final release of High Sierra.
So far under testing SMART Utility is fully compatible with Intel Macs running MacOS 14 Sonoma. This includes the external driver! However, for M1 & M2 Macs running MacOS 14 Sonoma, it should be compatible but not the external driver.
Continue readingSMART Utility is fully compatible with Intel Macs running Mac OS 13 Ventura. This includes the external driver! However, for M1 & M2 Macs running Mac OS 13 Ventura, it should be compatible but not the external driver.
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