4 Tools To Predict and Prevent Hard Drive Failure

[ChrisUlrich]

hi there

On a normal survey basis, our computer runs in a proper mode or they respond to us properly. Also sometimes they rpovide us with a critical problem. the problem such as hard drive failure and hasrd drive problem are common one.
how will it be If a small equipment in your computer will predict before failing of your computer components first, what would it be? Some might go for the power supply, some might choose the motherboard and some might go for the video card. Maximum will support to choose the hard drive. So, what can we do to avoid hard drive failures?

The standard IDE/SATA hard drive available today is the most mechanical piece of device placed in present computers. And it will stay till solid state drives becomes much more cheaper and much more compatible as per present hardware requirements. The most common part of the problems with these hard drives, is how critically they are to the placing state of your computer. A normal hard disk failure means a useless computer unless and untill you are intelligent to be running in some type of RAID environment, which is right now working for most of home users.

So to help for prediction and protection by yourself from these type of surprise circumstances of a hard drive failure, I have come up with four third party diagnostic tools, and a small list of the all the major hard drive manufacturer tools. Most of these incorporate the built-in SMART i.e Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology features with almost of today’s hard disks present in the market. This tools will only work for Windows Only.

[ChrisUlrich]

CrystalDiskInfo:

CrystalDiskInfo is a S.M.A.R.T. applied utility which supports not only internal drives, but also USB and IEEE1394’s devices as well. It also displays an incredible amount of easy and advanced disk information, and it may always be running at the background of the programs. This tool also consists of temperature readings, read errors, write errors and power management tools, running at all times of the day in your computer.

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HD Tune

HD Tune is a much easier hard drive disk scanning utility or tool that has benchmarking, advanced diagnostics options which is actually similar to Crystal and a disk scanning utility tool, also very much similar to the Windows version, but it has a facility that it can be run in real-time. This tool also includes real time temperature monitoring option.

HD Tune also uses the SMART based technology feature and has been providing a great help to myself. I also knew that my hard drive was on the last stage and this was the first utility tool to assure me that. I was not able to run the benchmarking tool on my system hard drive . This tool also also supports all connection types.

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HDD Health

HDD Health is another utility tool for similar application which can help you to predict and prevent hard disk failure. It also includes temperature and real time monitoring options, but it also includes a health indicator and this indiactor simply indiactes the hard drive health by percentage and nothing more. This tool includes the advanced diagnostic tools options as the other SMART utilities are having in them as well.

HDD Health 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.

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HDD Scan

HDD Scan is a similar application utitlity tool which not only includes many SMART diagnostic utilities options, but other disk utilities as well. It also includes many advanced testing options, such as reading, writing and erasing in linear. In competition to the other products, HDD Scan might get you more services than just prediction and protection.

AAM – this function changes drive’s acoustic. If this function is enabled drive’s noise may be decreased by smoothing HSA’s seek operations. HDD could lose some performance.
APM – this function allows power savings by temporary decreasing spindle’s rotation speed (including complete stop) when drive is in idle.
PM – this function allows setting spin-down timer. If drive is in idle spindle will be stopped after the time set in the timer. If any program requests HDD access timer will be reset and spindle will spin up.
The program can also start or stop spindle immediately. If any program requests HDD access drive’s spindle will spin up.

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