SMART Utility!

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T.

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too.

HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions:-Benchmark: measures the performance,-Info: shows detailed information,-Health: checks the health status by using SMART,-Error Scan: scans the surface for errors,-Temperature display,HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.

Hard disk drive health inspection tool

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures. Prevent data loss by automatic and scheduled backup.

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

Victoria - An experimental program to work with HDD. Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive. However, compared with the DOS-programs, the utility for Windows provides the following benefits:

The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users.

HDDScan is a freeware utility for storage devices diagnostics (HDD, RAID, Flash). The program can scan storage device for bad blocks, show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans.

Free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives. Early warning to save your data

SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer. The installation needs dot.NET 4 as a precondition. If dot.NET 4 is not installed, it must be installed before. Then in a further step the new dot.NET 4-installation must be updated, before you can install SeaTools.It includes several tests that will examine the physical media on your Seagate or Maxtor disk drive and any other non-Seagate disk drive.

Stellar Drive Monitor brings in good news for Mac users having OS X 10.4.11 to 10.8, now each of them can closely monitor the internal hard drive activities & corresponding partitions in the most simple fashion. The UI of the tool is crisp which enables soft clicks to analyse temperature of the hard drive (partitions), surface scan that reports bad blocks present on the hard drive (partitions), brief & full information of the hard drive (partitions). S.M.A.R.T of a hard drive can be viewed as well as saved for future references. The end of the SMART test would either result in pass or fail depending upon the condition odf the hard drive & partitions. You can jump to Preferences of the Stellar Drive Monitor utility & manipulate the settings in the manner you require like start-up at login, verifying I/O errors & un-allowing to check disk on battery power. Make full advantage of the 30 day trial period that allows to view SMART & scan status, however, for advance features such as Drive Performance & backup, you must register. »

StableBit Scanner is a state of the art disk health monitoring tool.- Monitors the SMART data of your disks, and presents them in an easy to read, meaningful way.- Lists detailed information about your disk, including the connection type, bus speed, and supported features.- Performs a surface scan of the disks to ensure that every sector of the disk is readable, once a month.- Can recover "damaged" files that are located where there is damage to the disk. - Performs a file system check, to make sure they are healthy.- Notifies you of any issues via email, sms, NotifyMyAndroid, PushOver and many other notification systems.- Includes a number of useful metrics, such as disk performance and disk queue length.- Includes diagnostic abilities, such as the "Burst test" which is great for detecting problems with data cables or controllers.- Integrates with StableBit DrivePool (shows disk information in DrivePool's UI, and evacuates damaged disks to help prevent data loss). »