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

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

iStat is a series of system monitor apps. It's available in different versions: iStat Menus, iStat for iOS and iStat Server as a companion application to the iStat for iOS app that lets you remotely monitor your computers (free for Windows and Mac).

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:

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.

DiskWarrior is the safest, most technologically advanced, most powerful utility to eliminate directory damage and recover your files, folders and documents. DiskWarrior is so advanced it can even recover your data from a failing hard drive. Yet all that power is hidden behind one button.

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

Techtool Pro is a robust hardware diagnostic tool available for Macintosh.

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.

Macrorit Disk Scanner it a free and smart disk scanner software which could help you quickly test, scan disk and mark the lactation of bad sectors.

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. »