Monitor the health of your hard drive.
Posted by F. S. KAMAL on October 14th, 2008
HD Tune is a freeware utility which allows you to benchmark, scan and get important information about your computer’s hard drive.
Among other features of HD Tune, benchmarking allows you to test the
performance of your drive and get the following data: transfer rate, access time, CPU usage, burst rate.
On the publisher’s site you can compare the performance of your hard drive with that of other users.
HD Tune can also collect extensive information on your hard drive: partition information, supported features, firmware version,
serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode and its temperature in real time. This feature allows you to set an alarm if the temperature exceeds a threshold set by you. A helpful feature for preserving your hard disk and avoid overheating.
The utility also allows you to access the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) and Power On Time information.
Finally, HD Tune can scan your hard drive for errors.