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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

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

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.

DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, but also analyzes the changes of all drive health indicators that are closely related to HDD or SSD failures (like the pending bad sectors, reallocated bad sectors, uncorrectable bad sectors, SSD wear out / endurance, and more) and alerts the user immediately if anything goes wrong. Our drive health diagnostics algorithms are based on the recent researches in this field. The application provides access to all sufficient drive diagnostic data to satisfy any system administrator. DriveDx is the first utility of its kind to have a real user-friendly Mac-style interface. »

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). »

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.

Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. In many cases it is able to warn the user about forthcoming disk failure in advance, thus preventing information loss.

Modern hard drives are much more reliable than the disks of yesterday. However, they still are extremely complex electronic devices with moving parts that are subject to amortization. The high density of data storage provided by the modern disks allows for greater storage capacities and higher access speeds. However, with densities and capacities pushed to the extreme you have much more to lose should the drive fail. The hard drive is the most important component in your entire PC because it holds all that is of real value: your documents, digital pictures, email messages, your work and private data. »

HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.

This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.

Pc-Check® is your ready-to-use-now diagnostic software. With its self-booting start-up, you don’t have to worry about which operating system is installed. Pc-Check only tests the hardware you want it to. No gimmicks, no files touched, no brand names considered — just reliable hardware test results.