Hard Drive is the crucial part of a computer as it stores all your precious data, but have you ever thought of checking the HDD health to ensure the data is safe?. Probably no. Most of the users are unaware of the HDD health and are not concerned regarding the hdd life, all they care is that their computer is running just fine.
The data is very precisous and the loss of data cannot be bought back with money. So its essential that users need to be aware of the importance of HDD health. An hard drive is a mechanical part and faults can arise due to various reasons which will lead to bad sectors, data corruption, data loss or complete hard drive malfunction.
HDD health check run is recommened once in a while , its better than being sorry later. CrystalDiskInfo is a free windows utility that lets you check HDD health, it alerts of any error or fault in HDD which might later lead to data loss, so that you can backup data on HDD as soon as possible. You never know when a HDD fails.
CrystalDiskInfo HDD health monitor
CrystalDiskInfo is a free HDD health monitoring utility for Windows system which provides detailed hdd stats about all Hard Drives installed on the computer. It supports both internal and external usb hard drive monitoring, sata or ide and also SSD drives. Based on the SMART info it shows an indicator if the hard drive is in good, bad or poor condition, besides it also shows temperature for each hard drive.
Download the installer or the portable version of CrystalDiskInfo for windows and start monitoring hard drive. It is recommended to run the program and check for the HDD health once in a week so that error or faults in hard drive can be detected before anything bad happens.
CrystalDiskInfo displays the following hdd info for advanced users:
- Hard drive model & serial number.
- Hard drive interface & buffer size.
- Hard Drive rotation speed, power on counts & power on hours.
- Hard Drive Temperature, automatically alerts if temperature exceeds set limit.
- Detailed S.M.A.R.T info with values for each attribute.
If you wish to compare any particular attribute of hard drives installed then open Functions => Graph to view the hard drive value comparison. It helps to choose as to which hard drive is in best condition among all. The Graph feature is only useful if there are multiple hard drives on a computer.
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that is the long time ago i check my HDd