PassMark DiskCheckup (or simply DiskCheckup) is free for personal use and a very good HDD monitor software. Note: Be careful while installing this software. It will prompt for the installation of third-party tool, but you can skip that tool using Decline button.Ĭlick here to check the full review. This lightweight software (less than 2 MB) is pretty useful for a detailed hard disk analysis. You will also see the crucial information of your hard disk: Firmware, Serial No, capacity, Cache size, Model No, and Manufacturer. Report of all tests can also be exported to PC as a text file for later use. You will be able to find out the raw read error rate, start/stop count, seek time performance, spin-up retry count, and various other S.M.A.R.T attributes.

HDDExpert is another handy software in this list that shows the health status of your hard disk drive by performing various tests. Many other features are also provided by this advanced disk health checker software: full information of the hard drive, disk partitions, set read/write options, show warnings if hard disk temperature or any other parameter of HDD exceeds the threshold, etc. An easy to understand definition of every single attribute is also provided, which makes it more useful. You will also see the graph to check the threshold and the current condition of your hard disk drive. For every single attribute, it shows threshold, current value, and worst value. It checks for all possible S.M.A.R.T attributes to generate the accurate status of hard disk health.

HDD Guardian is one of the best software in this list to check hard drive health and Solid State Drive (SSD) health. Let’s start with the first software named as ‘HDD Guardian’. So these software are handy for both experts as well as for regular users. Most of these software also show detailed information of your HDD. You will see the current value, threshold, and worst value for hard disk’s spin up/down time, seek error rate, bad sectors, power cycle count, start and stop count, throughput performance, etc. It is done by testing the various attributes of S.M.A.R.T ( Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) of your hard disk.

These software are handy to generate the status report of your hard disk drive (HDD) health. Here are 5 free software to check hard drive health.

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