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mcr700

Post subject: Best HDD Health Program

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 8:48

Joined: January 27th, 2012, 8:38
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Location: United States

I have several hard drives a month that pass through my shop. I know from experience that one of the signs they are starting to fail is a "massive" slow down. Other then that, the drives appear healthy and sometimes they seem to just pep up. Is there a program that can diagnose the health of a clean drive with no errors on the platter? I have tried Spin Rite and it doesn't seem to work so far.

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loki

Post subject: Re: Best HDD Health Program

Posted: January 27th, 2012, 9:44

Joined: July 7th, 2010, 4:45
Posts: 924
Location: UK

I like HDD Sentinel
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

Also like that is tells you how many platters & heads are in the drive.

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mcr700

Post subject: Re: Best HDD Health Program

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 0:38

Joined: January 27th, 2012, 8:38
Posts: 2
Location: United States

Is there anything free.

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Best HDD Health Program

Posted: January 28th, 2012, 1:29

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 16955
Location: Australia

HDDScan
smartmontools

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