3 Best Utilities to Monitor Your Hard Disk Health at it’s Best
Hard Disk Drive is the most essential component like the Processor and the Motherboard. Without Hard Disk Drive your computer will be totally dumb. It’s very essential to Monitor your Hard Drive Health to maximize it’s performance as well as to eliminate sudden PC Crashes.
This post features 3 Best Utilities to Maximize your Hard Disk Performance as well as to Monitor it’s Health State.
- PassMark DiskCheckup – PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART ( Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology ) is an interface between a computer’s BIOS (basic input/output system) and the computer hard disk. It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE) technology that controls access to the hard drive. If S.M.A.R.T is enabled when a computer is set up, the BIOS can receive analytical information from the hard drive and determine whether to send the user a warning message about possible future failure of the hard drive.
- HDD Health - It’s is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000 and XP. 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.
- S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tool – It contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks.
With this Superb Tools you can boost your Hard Drive Performance at it’s best as well as get notified if the there’s any future Hard Drive Failure.
Moreover it’s recommended that you use any one of the above mentioned tool, don’t have multiple installation at a time. Also check out the Help/FAQ in the software itself or at the Manufacturers Website.
Source: Mrin Tech
