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LiveCDs are available for download, allowing the user to use GNOME Disks without any changes to the computer. smartmontools [7] Windows, Unix-like (Linux, macOS, BSD, etc.) GNU GPL v2 CLI and GUI (via GSmartControl and HDD Guardian) All for Linux, some for other Unix-like See list of supported devices; [8] SAT driver required on macOS only [9]
The software is designed to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drives, reveal problems, display health and avoid failures by using S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) function of hard disk drives. [34] [35] [36] The detected information can be saved to file in formats such as HTML, text, or XML. [37] [38] [39]
An early hard disk monitoring technology was introduced by IBM in 1992 in its IBM 9337 Disk Arrays for AS/400 servers using IBM 0662 SCSI-2 disk drives. [11] Later it was named Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) technology. It was measuring several key device health parameters and evaluating them within the drive firmware.
CrystalDiskInfo is an MIT-licensed S.M.A.R.T. utility for reading and monitoring disk drive status. Like CrystalDiskMark, this tool is designed with an emphasis around solid state devices, supporting NVMe connections in addition to the usual PATA and SATA .
In computing, CHKDSK (short for "check disk") is a system tool and command in DOS and Microsoft Windows (and related operating systems), as well as Digital Research FlexOS, [1] IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, [2] IBM OS/2. [3] It verifies the integrity of the file system on a volume (usually a partition) and attempts to fix
Steve Bass of PC World provided a brief review of the 1.1.2 release of WinDirStat, summarizing its usefulness: "Windirstat is [a] colorful and nifty tool to check the makeup of your hard drive -- especially if you're looking for immense files. It scans your drive and produces a treemap that shows each file as a colored rectangle that's ...
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is an internal control or process that performs the act of validating the integrity of operating system and application software files using a verification method between the current file state and a known, good baseline.
Power-on hours is intended to indicate a remaining lifetime prediction for hard drives and solid state drives, generally, "the total expected life-time of a hard disk is 5 years" [3] or 43,800 hours of constant use. [4] [5] Typically, after a disk reaches 5 years of power-on time, the disk is more likely to fail.