Top 15 Data Lifeguard Diagnostic Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.

1. DriveDx

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,......

2. 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......

3. Acronis Drive Monitor

Acronis Drive Monitor Free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives. Early warning to save your dataAcronis Drive Monitor can help predict when a hard drive is about to fail, giving you the chance to backup your data before disaster strikes. When Acronis Drive Monitor......

4. 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......

5. 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,......

6. HDAT2

HDAT2 HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices.HDAT2 program has 2 levels:Drive level testing- main function is testing and repair (to regenerate) bad sectors for detected devices- you get much information about detected devicesFile level testing- read/find/check items (MBR, boot, directories, etc.) of file......

7. MHDD

MHDD MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform......

8. quietHDD

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......

9. Anvil’s Storage Utilities

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.......

10. SQLIO

SQLIO SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.......

11. HDD Led Indicator

HDD Led Indicator This is a hard disk activity monitoring tool. It displays the activity of the disk in the same manner as PC HI-DISK led does..Useful when PC HI-DISK led is not in sight or is missing. It's free to try, but in demo mode you are just prompted to register and......

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. Active@ Hard Disk Monitor

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).This software monitors hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time and......

14. ATTO Disk Benchmark

ATTO Disk Benchmark The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option......

15. Eximo

Eximo Disk Usage Visualizerv1.5.1Mac app to see your data at a glance.A nice tool to track your disk usage and see your data. Helpful and respectful.Visual presentation of your disk usage in sunburst diagramFast scanner of local folders or mounted volumesDrag files to copy or trashReveal hidden files and those with......