Every computer user stores MBs, GBs or TBs of files on their computers, and most of them keep and update the files for years. Some of the files may be less important, while the others are highly valuable. We store valuable information like photos, audio and video files, documents, passwords, account information, etc.So what will happen if your hard disk crashes or fails? The one line answer is all your data will be lost.
The S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring software tools can help you in preventing data loss by letting you know about your hard-disks’ health status in advance, and allows you to backup your files before your hard disk fails.This blog post talks about S.M.A.R.T. And its key benefits, and takes you through the 7 best S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring software tools.
7 Best Hard Drive Health Monitoring Tools to Check Hard Drive Health. In this post, we will list down seven popular hard drive health monitoring programs that help you check heard drive health. These tools will give you enough information to keep a tab on your hard disk’s health. Active@ Hard Disk Monitor برنامه Active@ Hard Disk Monitor Pro 3.1.9 امکان مدیریت هارد دیسک را به صورت کاملا حرفه ای فراهم می آورد. نرم افزاری قدرتمند که با دارا بودن محیط کاربری بسیار جذاب.
What is S.M.A.R.T.?S.M.A.R.T. Stands for Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. This technology, integrated in the hard disks, predicts disk failures. It lets you know about the permanent health status of the hard drives. Using certain attributes and parameters, it provides information about the, total number of hours, read errors, issues, health status and other things related to your hard disks. Key benefits of S.M.A.R.T.
ToolsThe key benefits found in most of the popular S.M.A.R.T. Tools are as follows. Monitors the health status of hard disks.
Predicts disk failures. Checks for disk problems. Gives detailed status reports.
Provides backup before the hard drives fail. Alerts you through email or desktop notifications.(Free to try, $29.95 to buy)O&O DriveLed from O&O Software is an early warning system that detects hard disk crashes when they are on their way. This is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The software provider allows you try the software before you buy it.You can use O&O DriveLed for PCs and servers. The software works smartly on PCs and servers. The software is easy to install and use. (Free 21-day trial, $17.96 to buy)Active Smart is a useful S.M.A.R.T.
Tool from Ariolic Software, which monitors hard drive status very efficiently. You can use the software free of cost for 21 days. It efficiently monitors the hard disk health status, and gives you important information such as current temperature, free space, and read-write errors, and so on.
(Free)CrystalDiskInfo is a very helpful, easy to use S.M.A.R.T. Tool from Crystal Dew World, which gives you all the necessary information about the hard drive health.
This is a reliable software application, designed for the Windows operating systems. CrystalDiskInfo is popular for its easy interface. CrystalDiskInfo gives you the S.M.A.R.T. Values and hard drive details in details. (Free)HDD Health is an S.M.A.R.T. Tool from PanteraSoft, which monitors your hard disks and give you alerts on impending failure.
It monitors disk status and disk health. It shows current temperature, S.M.A.R.T.
Values and other information. The software is easy to install and easy to use. (Free)Acronis Drive Monitor from Acronis is another popular S.M.A.R.T. Tool that monitors the hard drives of PCs, servers and workstations. Most interestingly, it is absolutely free to use. You can download it and use it at no cost.Your important files and documents on your hard drives are always protected with Acronis Drive Monitor.
It automatically monitors the hard drives and prevents data loss.To mention some of its key features, it automatically checks for problems in the hard disks, prevents data loss, gives weekly status reports and sends you email alerts and desktop notifications. (Free to try, $24.99 to buy)Ashampoo HDD Control is an S.M.A.R.T. Tool from Ashampoo, which monitors and maintains your hard drives. It gives you all the necessary health status information of your hard drives.
Ashampoo HDD Control offers constant hard disk monitoring, support for external USB drives, support for solid state drives, data recovery, adjustment of noise level, power management of your hard drives, and so on. (Free to try, $5.99 to buy)Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a hard disk monitoring tool that scans the hard disks for bad sectors and monitors the parameters in order to keep you well informed about the overall health status of your hard drives, and helps you to take appropriate actions before the hard drives fail.
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The simple UI lets you use the software very easily.
SSDs are gradually intruding into the HDD market and replacing the role of regular hard disks in laptops and high-end desktops. Solid State Devices are offering high performance compared to traditional spinning hard disks. This flash-based memory device is consuming less battery power to read and write data with relatively high-speed that guarantee more battery life for your laptops.The SSD system will boot will be ready to start work in seconds. If you have apps installed on SSD, the drive loads your apps faster and copies Gigabytes of data within a few seconds. SSDs are offering high performance, high-speed and less power consumption. Since this is a new technology, still SSDs are lagging behind hard disks in terms of lifespan and reliability.Here is the list of best Windows and Mac Free Tools to Check SSD Health and Monitor Performance.
Crystal Disk Info. Crystal Disk Info helps you to monitor Solid State Hard Disk’s health status and temperature. You can use this tool to check your SSD and other Hard Disk types. Once you have installed this tool, this tool can monitor your system hard disk performance in real-time while you working on the system.This tool can check your disk’s Read and Write speed and S.M.A.R.T. In addition to this, this open source SSD tool can project a lot of information about your SSD.
This software can show you the error rates of the disk including “ read error rate”. The performance measuring scales like seek time performance, throughput performance, etc. Can be viewed in real-time with total Power-on time.Key Features:. SSD Details (Firmware, Supported Features, Power On Hours, etc.). S.M.A.R.T.
Information (Read Error Rate, Seek Time Performance, Power Cycle Count, etc.). Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM)/APM Control. Alert Mail and Alarm Options.
Support most of the SSD DrivesDownload for: FreeRead: SmartmonotoolsThe Smartmontools package contains two utility programs ( smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor your hard disk. This tool is offering the real-time monitoring of your Hard Disk. Smartmonotools can analyze and warn you about potential disk degradation and failure. Smartmontools supports ATA/ATAPI/SATA-3 to -8 disks and SCSI disks and tape devices. This disk tool can run on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OS/2, Cygwin, QNX, eComStation, Windows and runs from a Live CD.Key Features:.
Real-time SSD performance monitoring. Disk failure and degradation alert. Supports all PC platforms. Support most of the SSD DrivesDownload for: FreeRelated: Hard Disk SentinelHDSentinel is a hard disk monitoring software that supports Windows, Linux and Dos. This SSD monitoring tool is built to find, test, diagnose and repair SSD problems. Disk Sentinel is also capable to display SSD health. Whether it is an internal or connected with USB or e-SATA, this tool can scan and recognize your SSD problems and generate reports with the possible fix to solve the errors.After you install Hard Disk Sentinel, the tool runs in the background and check the SSD health status and warns the user if found any error.
SSDs do NOT ‘take a last breath’ in a similar fashion to spindle drives. However write performnce degrades over the lifetime of the device to the point where it will be effectively unusable. It should at this point still be readable, so effectively has become ROM.The first comment left is almost entirely accurate. Most SSD ‘monitoring’ tools will in fact read information about any SSD, however they will only allow you to interact with that manufacturers SSDs (i.e.
Samsung tool will display e.g. Total Read/Write information about a drive manufactured by say SKHynix, but will only allow you TRIM or alter settings for Samsung drives.Before you buy an SSD – check the manufacturers website to see if they provide such software. The more expensive end of the market usually has such tools. Very cheap SSD manufacturers tend not to. The choice is yours. The majority of the advertised applications are bloatware or junkware, or pehraps heven malware and spyware. Crystal Disk is actually some anime thing with kawaii faces and plays little jingles and stuff all the time.
This has never been a sign of a good application. Just google Bonzai Buddy.Intel and Samsung have HDD diagnostic software, but unless you have a specific subset of Intel manufactured or samsung manufactured drives, it will be less than useless.
For example, suppose you buy a Samsung Laptop with intel components. Neither of them will work due to the SSD being a Seagate or whatever. So don’t even bother unless you bought a specific SSD from those manufactureres directly and then plugged it in yourself.SSD Life might be good. I am trying it right now.
It apparently appears to be actually called OCZ SSD utility and cannot detect my one and only drive, which is a solid state drive.The solution? If you are looking for a diagnostic test, it does not exist yet, as of May 2016. I am pretty sure that SMART – that is, solid state drives have not yet implemented anything equal; to or analogous to Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.
Your $2 USB stick and your main hard drive are equivalent in technological sophistication and apparently the age of forethought is dead.