My reading of Joemikeb's reply is that he himself doesn't perform any sort of routine maintenance, because he has a utility that does it for him. Semantics. ;-)
Not quite. The utility performs NO maintenance and NO repairs. Instead it checks to see if there is any NEED for repairs or other actions such as replacing a failing HD.
I stand corrected. That said, against the backdrop of the OP's question the difference still has a flavor of 'semantics': the intent of both monitoring and maintenance routines referred to here is the same, to help avoid running into otherwise unforeseen problems, ideally while reducing the manual chore of it. But while both monitoring and maintenance routines can be automated, it's good to remember that they're not identical in the kind of issues they address, and that they may coexist.
PS, the Checkmate version issue Jon reported can be avoided by using the '
Checkmate Upgrade Offer Application' download button on the order confirmation.
