Top 15 HDD Health Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.

1. Hard Drive Inspector

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.......

2. smartmontools

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.......

3. Skylark for Nest & Honeywell Smart Thermostats

Skylark for Nest & Honeywell Smart Thermostats Automatically & reliably control your Nest/Honeywell thermostats and smart devices, based on your location. Skylark saves you money by making your heating & air conditioning more energy-efficient. Setup in mins & sync on multiple devices.PLEASE NOTE: The app requires Nest or Honeywell Smart Thermostat.FEATURES» Simple, secure & reliable» Uses battery-friendly......

4. HDD Guardian

HDD Guardian The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users. HDD Guardian requires .NET Framework 4.0 and is actually tested on Windows XP SP3 32 bit and Windows 7......

5. Pebble Snap

Pebble Snap Enabling remote photo snapping using your Pebble Smart Watch.Pebble Watch App installation instructions are here: http://izen.me/apps/pebble-snap/ Pebble Snap is an iOS App that combines the wearable Pebble Smart watch with the iPhone camera to enable taking photographs remotely with the click of a button. How can this be used?Make......

6. diskscan

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......

7. Activesmart

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......

8. SpeedFan

SpeedFan SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. It also has the ability to control fan speeds gradually on many motherboards and video cards to......

9. StableBit Scanner

StableBit Scanner StableBit Scanner is a state of the art disk health monitoring tool.- Monitors the SMART data of your disks, and presents them in an easy to read, meaningful way.- Lists detailed information about your disk, including the connection type, bus speed, and supported features.- Performs a surface scan of the......

10. Paragon HFS+ for Windows

Paragon HFS+ for Windows Experience total communication between MAC & Windows with the industry’s highest performing file system technologyParagon HFS+ for Windows is the only solution that provides full read-write access to HFS+/HFSX partitions on any type of disks (APM, GPT, MBR) under most of Windows versions!Access Mac-formatted partitions in Windows systems with the......

11. Walk Me Up

Walk Me Up Hold the phone in your hand and start taking steps to disable the alarm. How often does it happen that despite hearing the alarm you find it difficult to get out of bed? This innovative app solves this problem once and for all. The original pedometer alarm app. You probably......

12. SSD-Z

SSD-Z Using a database, it will show information about your SSD, such as the controller, processing tech, NAND type etc.Other useful information related to disk devices are also shown, such as S.M.A.R.T. status and partition layout.Features:- Details of the controller and processing tech of NAND chips (for known devices).- Verify that......

13. PassMark DiskCheckup

PassMark DiskCheckup PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, the system administrator can......

14. Stellar Drive Monitor

Stellar Drive Monitor Stellar Drive Monitor brings in good news for Mac users having OS X 10.4.11 to 10.8, now each of them can closely monitor the internal hard drive activities & corresponding partitions in the most simple fashion. The UI of the tool is crisp which enables soft clicks to analyse temperature......

15. Victoria

Victoria Victoria - An experimental program to work with HDD. Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive. However,......