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Looking for a tool that can tell me when my hard drives are expected to die. Can anyone recommend a (preferably) free one?
mpen
Posted 2010-02-28T07:41:48.790
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Hard drive life monitor?
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I'd thoroughly recommend HDTune - it has a benchmarking capability, access to SMART information and other device information, and a low-level surface scan (to detect bad sectors etc)
CJM
Posted 2010-02-28T07:41:48.790
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You need a SMART monitor, a program that displays the health statistics of the hard drives.
GSmartControl runs on Windows 7 and is free.
Snark
Posted 2010-02-28T07:41:48.790
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Link is dead now. – mpen – 2015-01-28T07:06:37.630
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Hard Disk Sentinel works for me.
Umber Ferrule
Posted 2010-02-28T07:41:48.790
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Also, there's DiskSmartView from NirSoft. I also highly recommend NirSoft utilities.
Umber Ferrule
Posted 2010-02-28T07:41:48.790
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Also you can try HDDLife. It's quite useful tool for server monitoring. You can get for free only trial on offical site, but you can google it and find some patched version on some public torrent tracker.
Anotomix
Posted 2010-02-28T07:41:48.790
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You mean other than SMART? – fixer1234 – 2015-01-28T04:33:18.177
@fixer1234 No, I didn't even know about SMART at the time of this writing. I think I had a ticking harddrive and I just wanted to know if it was about to crap out or not (it's actually still working almost 5 years later!) – mpen – 2015-01-28T07:08:52.693
Try one of the recommended SMART tools to verify that your drive has the feature (not all older drives did, especially ones that were small by today's standards). If not, update your question. – fixer1234 – 2015-01-28T07:21:29.003