Archive for category HDD diagnose

Determine your hard drive working time

Posted by admin in HDD diagnose on February 1, 2010

HDDlife Pro

When you purchase a “new” hard drive, you’d better check how long it has been used, especially if you purchase online, like eBay. Then how to determine the hard drive working time?
Two ways to determine the hard drive working time
1. By data recovery software
We have discussed before in Data Security category, even if you deleted [...]

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Top 5 hard drive diagnostics software

Posted by admin in HDD diagnose on December 26, 2009

Memtest86+

There are many free software diagnostic tools available to test and help you determine what, if anything, is wrong when you suspect there may be a problem with a hard drive.
Memtest86+: One of the most well known memory and CPU testing software out there. This program has gained a ton of new features over the [...]

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Test the HDD with HD Tune – a professional hard drive diagnose software

Posted by admin in HDD diagnose on November 15, 2009

HD Tune was designed as a HDD application.
Features:
Benchmark: measures the raw performance
Transfer Rate
Access Time
CPU Usage
Burst Rate
Hard Disk information which includes firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
Hard Disk Health
S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
Temperature
Power On Time
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Hard disks are among the lowest-priced computer components but [...]

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