Drive Scope 2

Spec sheet

Purpose

Drive Scope 2 monitors Mac drive health using SMART data and warns about indicators of possible drive failure.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Intended users

Micromat describes its products as serving technical, business, publishing, consumer, scientific and engineering, and government customers.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Privacy

Micromat says it does not sell personal information and does not share account or registration data without permission unless ordered by a court.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Support

Micromat lists technical support by email on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Apple Silicon and USB SSDs

It supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and its SAT SMART driver enables SMART data access for supported USB-connected SSDs.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Compatibility

The product supports Apple Silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur or later, including macOS 26 Tahoe.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Compatibility limits

Some USB SSDs do not share SMART data with macOS even with the SAT SMART Driver installed, and drives in RAID enclosures may not be supported.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Continuous monitoring

It can check supported disks continuously in the background and notify users if a drive starts to fail.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Current update

Micromat lists Drive Scope 2.0.6, released May 20, 2026, as an update optimized for macOS 26 Tahoe.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Device limitations

Some USB SSDs do not share SMART data with macOS, and drives in RAID enclosures may not be supported.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Drive testing

Users can manually trigger a drive’s internal self-test and review the errors it has encountered.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Drive tests

Users can trigger a drive’s internal tests manually and review reported errors and drive health attributes.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Menu bar

A menu bar item provides at-a-glance SMART health information for supported drives connected to the Mac.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

NVMe support

Drive Scope can read SMART data from NVMe drives in supported Macs.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

SMART details

The app displays granular SMART attributes and indicates which contribute to overall failure versus which are informational.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

System requirements

The product page lists Apple Silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur or later, including macOS 26 Tahoe.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Widget

Users on macOS 14 Sonoma or later can add a Drive Scope widget to the Mac desktop.Read 9 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Widgets

Users running macOS 14 Sonoma or later can add a Drive Scope widget to the Mac desktop.Read 10 Oct 2026 · micromat.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Disk Health Monitoring Software#26 of 307.0