Top 15 Most Popular Hdd Softwares | Dec 2024

1. Activesmart

Active SMART - is hard-drive deagnostic and file usage information tool. It uses the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks to timely detect and anticipate any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.Moreover - it's a fast disk...... TpSort Score | 1,140,000,000

2. quietHDD

About:Do you own a a a Netbook, Laptop or a Computer with an with a hard disk?Well, then you perhaps noticed an annoying click sound that comes from time to time.That's the reason I wrote quietHDD. A very small Windows application (~60 KBytes) that eliminates this sound. After some time...... TpSort Score | 239,000,000

3. Iotop

Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command).Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on. It requires Python = 2.5...... TpSort Score | 198,000,000

4. IOzone

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor’s computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations:Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read,...... TpSort Score | 198,000,000

5. ViVARD

Providing support for common interfaces, namely SATA, IDE and SCSI, this program is designed for low-level HDD diagnostics.The application is only available in bootable image format for floppy disks. During the install process, you are prompted to write an emergency disk on a floppy drive.Although it might seem easy to...... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

6. diskscan

Diskscan is intended to provide the information needed to decide if a disk is good or not, be it an HDD or an SSD it is likely to be holding important data and if you have a suspicion that it is failing it is also important to know how bad...... TpSort Score | 193,000,000

7. Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Anvil's Storage Utilities is a powerful tool that comes packed with many useful features for helping you test the performance of a solid-state drive or hard disk drive....... TpSort Score | 85,000,000

8. Drive Fitness Test

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting data....... TpSort Score | 51,100,000

9. Hard Drive Inspector

Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. In many cases it is able to warn the user about forthcoming disk failure in advance, thus preventing information loss....... TpSort Score | 46,300,000

10. HDD Profiler

HDD-Profiler is a powerful HDD (Hard-Disk-Drive) profiling utility that will inform you which files/folders were created, modified, accessed or removed in certain areas of your hard disk by creating system snapshots.It can tell you who has modified, accessed or created a new file/folder inside the folder you are monitoring....... TpSort Score | 35,600,000

11. smartmontools

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure....... TpSort Score | 28,600,000

12. DriveDx

DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, but also analyzes the changes of all drive health indicators that are closely related to HDD or SSD failures (like the pending bad sectors, reallocated bad sectors,...... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

13. HDD Low Level Format Tool

This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281 474 976 710 655 bytes. Will work with USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures. Low-level formatting of Flash Cards is supported too. Low...... TpSort Score | 17,400,000

14. Mountain

Living seamlessly in the menu bar Mountain allows you to manage volumes with ease. With Mountain you can mount, unmount or eject drives with two easy clicks. Unmount a single drive or eject all external drives at once. Unmounted drives will be spinned down and can either be unpluged or...... TpSort Score | 16,000,000

15. HDD Health

HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard...... TpSort Score | 8,220,000