Top 15 Drive Fitness Test Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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.

1. Pc-Check

Pc-Check Pc-Check® is your ready-to-use-now diagnostic software. With its self-booting start-up, you don’t have to worry about which operating system is installed. Pc-Check only tests the hardware you want it to. No gimmicks, no files touched, no brand names considered — just reliable hardware test results.Test Coverage and MaintenanceOperations that are......

2. 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......

3. 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......

4. 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......

5. SeaTools

SeaTools SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer. The installation needs dot.NET 4 as a precondition. If dot.NET 4 is not installed, it must be installed before. Then in a further step the new......

6. 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.......

7. 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.......

8. GetDataBack

GetDataBack GetDataBack, for FAT or NTFS drive and partitions, will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a......

9. 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......

10. Raid Reconstructor

Raid Reconstructor Data Recovery Software for broken RAID arrays. Rebuild your RAID with RAID Reconstructor and mount it with Captain Nemo. Use our RaidProbe service if you do not find your RAID parameters.......

11. 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.......

12. 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,......

13. IOzone

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,......

14. fio

fio fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.fio can work on either of block devices or files and accepts......

15. SQLIO

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