How to Maintain Mac hard drive life - A discussion

The Mac OS hides all the typical applications so, many of the Mac users are unaware of the internal functionalities of Mac. This feature also keeps the system secure and healthy. Although its a positive point from security point of view but also hits badly the user's ability to monitor and maintain Mac performance. Here we will discuss some procedures that can help safeguard your computer from data loss.


Be SMART and Monitor Mac hard drives
SMART stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology and allows you to diagnose your hard drive and alert you about the failure. If you want to run the tool, launch Disk Utility (Applications: Utilities) and click on the top level indicator for your drive in the left-hand column. In the bottom of the window, you should see something like "SMART Status: Verified". If you do not see "SMART status" at all, your Mac does not support the technology. If you see "SMART status" but do not see "Verified", your drive may be at risk of imminent failure. In this case, your best bet is to backup your data and replace the drive. This simple, but often overlooked procedure may save you from losing your data. One other thing worth noting is that although there is a myriad of 3rd party applications that can run these diagnostics automatically, be advised that using such utilities in the event of a hardware failure can cause extensive damage to the drive.

Clean up Mac Drive
Its always in favor of Mac users to delete the unused data weekly or after a fortnight . The unused data on Mac drive simple kills the usable space and delays the system's performance. If a user wants to uninstall any mac application (which is never/ rarely been used), then Stellar Speed Up Mac is the best option. This mac application is delete data form both bootable volume and non bootable volumes. 

UNIX Maintenance Scripts
Mac OS uses automatic maintenance routines called maintenance scripts to clean up system log files and other temporary files. The three scripts are designed to run daily, weekly and monthly. The problem is that these scripts are set by default to run late at night when most Macs are either off or sleeping. If the computer is off or in sleep mode during this time, the scripts will not run and the log files will grow in size, clogging up the startup disk and slowing down performance.