Top 15 diskscan Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 is it down the road. Diskscan will only perform reads in its disk surface scan so it is not destructive in any way and it will report on all the key metrics needed to decide if the disk is good or not, currently that includes reporting all the errors that were encountered, a latency histogram over the entire surface and a graph of the min/max/median latency over the disk surface. ...

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. 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......

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. 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. 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.......

6. CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T.It shows the health status much more clearly than similar tools.The "Function / Graph" is especially interesting for the "Reallocated Sectors Count".If it increases over time or is very high already, the hard drive may need to be replaced. More than 30......

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. HD Tune

HD Tune HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions:-Benchmark: measures the performance,-Info: shows detailed information,-Health: checks the health status by using SMART,-Error Scan: scans the surface for errors,-Temperature display,HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.......

9. Bart's Stuff Test

Bart's Stuff Test Bst5 (Bart's Stuff Test v5) is a small win32 application for long term heavy stress testing storage devices. Bst5 supports testing at file and device level.File level support enables you to test any local or remote volume by file access. This makes it possible to test almost any storage device.......

10. Hard Disk Sentinel

Hard Disk Sentinel Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures. Prevent data loss by automatic and scheduled backup.......

11. HDDLife

HDDLife Modern hard drives are much more reliable than the disks of yesterday. However, they still are extremely complex electronic devices with moving parts that are subject to amortization. The high density of data storage provided by the modern disks allows for greater storage capacities and higher access speeds. However, with......

12. 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......

13. 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......

14. Drive Fitness Test

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.......

15. SMARTReporter

SMARTReporter SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the built-in S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drives as well as performing other checks for "I/O errors" or R.A.I.D "degradation". The current status of your......