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Active SMART 2.11
OS: WinXP/2k3/Vista/7/8/10  Download  Homepage   Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 7Mb
Shareware $24.95

Active SMART is a the hard disk drive monitoring and failure prediction software. It uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to monitor the health status of hard disk drives, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fail. If a fault is detected, you are notified with various local alerting options or you can enable remote notifications via e-mail or other network mail applications with the drive ID and the time of the first fault. Active SMART monitors all important HDD parameters. You can track every S.M.A.R.T. parameter of your HDD, and get the information about every drive's attribute: attribute's value, it's threshold level and worst value for the attribute. Also it shows the information about HDD: serial number, drive logical information, current mode and other.
You can also download Active SMART SCSI edition with SCSI drives support. Active SMART SCSI edition supports hard drives on SCSI controllers and SCSI RAID arrays. Active SMART SCSI edition supports up to 4 IDE/ATA and up to 8 SCSI drives.
Active SMART for USB drives allows to check health status, temperature and many other vital parameters of hard drives connected through the USB port.

CHDDSPEED
OS: Win2k/XP Download Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 34K
Freeware

CHDDSPEED is a console utility, which tests the performance of various block devices (HDD, CD, Flash, etc.). This version (0.1) includes two tests: multisector read test and random read test.

CrystalDiskMark
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
3/5 - 699K
Freeware

CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

Datamarck
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 570Kb
Freeware

This program measures the read performance (in MB/s) and seek times (in ms) of hard drives, flash sticks or any other external storage device. The collected performance data can be shared and compared with the online stored benchmark database. Datamarck also shows some basic information about the available devices and has an attractive GUI.

Disk Bench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 174Kb
Freeware

Disk Bench tests your hard drive speed in a real life situation not in a benchmarking environment. All it does is copies a file from A to B, times the time it took, and deletes the file from B again. Theoretically, it can test not only hard drives. You will need to have .net framework installed. You can get this from windowsupdate or from MSDN Downloads.

Disk Speed
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 40K
Freeware

This program tests the speed of drives attached to your computer. Disk Speed reports the linear read transfer rate, the random read transfer rate and also the access time of the drive.

DiskSpeed32
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 64K
DiskSpeed32 is a hard drive speed analyzer. DiskSpeed32 reads sequently sectors of hard drive and plots a dependence of reading speed by cylinder number. Allows to test formatted and not formatted hard drives as well. Allows to check hard drives performance and to find mapped tracks on hard drives.

Drive!
OS: Windows NT   Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 567K
This program will measure the performance of your hard drives, running under Windows NT.

Drive Speed Checker
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 807K
Freeware

Drive Speed Checker is an application that will help you analyze the speed of your hard drive. It includes 3 main speed comparisons: Single Drive Detailed Check, multiple drive read/write comparison and multiple drive copy speed comparison.

FD Tach 0.9
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 709Kb
Shareware

FD Tach is a benchmark targeted towards flash devices. It is based on the new Tach benchmark library written for the recently released HD Tach. FD Tach has a few tests, including: read and write speed tests, access speed test, etc.

HDDScan
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.6Mb
Freeware

HDDScan is a program for low-level HDD diagnostics, which supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards. The program can scan the surface, view SMART attributes, adjust AAM, APM (Power Management), etc.

HD_Speed
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 45Kb
Freeware

This program measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. It features a realtime graphical display.

HDD UTILity
OS: Win95/98  Download Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 3Mb
HDD UTILity - is a suite, that consist of five utilities: HDD Alert UTILity, HDD Benchmark UTILity, HDD Control UTILity, HDD Info UTILity, and HDD Test&Repair UTILity! It seems, that it is one of the best in its class!

HDD Speed 2.1
OS: DOS       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 437K
This is a realistic HDD Benchmark! It also shows you all info about your hard drives and supports SCSI, EIDE, U/DMA, S.M.A.R.T., ect. VERY good russian program. One of the Best!

HD Tach 3.0.4.0
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.2Mb
Shareware

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible. The trial version of HD Tach measures the sequential read speed (at various points on the device), the random access speed, interface burst speed and CPU utilization of the drive. The registered version adds sequential write testing.

HD Tune
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 628Kb
Freeware

HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which can be used to measure the performance or to get important information from the hard disk such as the temperature, SMART parameters, firmware version, buffer size, etc.

HD Tune Pro
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1Mb
Shareware $34.95

HD Tune Pro is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as: write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

IDEdrive 2
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 220Kb
Freeware

IDEdrive interrogates your IDE-drives and displays detailed information about them (geometry, features, transfer modes, etc.).

Iometer
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 2Mb
Freeware

Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was developed by the Intel Corporation. Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). Iometer is also available for Linux, Netware, Windows 64 (IA64) and Solaris.

IOzone Filesystem Benchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1Mb
Freeware

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems. 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, pread, mmap, aio_read, aio_write.

MHDD 4.6  Recommended Software
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 528Kb
Freeware

MHDD is an utility for fast and informative low-level drive diagnostics. It performs fast (up to 20 Gb in 6 minutes) and accurate diagnostics of all the surface and heads of the HDD irrespective of the data located on it. The program also allows to get rid of the "software" bad sectors with the highest possible speed. MHDD's major features also include: IDE registers monitoring, SMART monitoring, HDD stress-testing, and more!

QDI Mark
OS: DOS       Download  Rating: 3/5 - 40K
This program measures the performance of your hard drive.

Quick Bench
OS: WinNT4/2000/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 375Kb
Freeware

Quick Bench is a small utility to check that your disks are configured properly by benching them and getting the average sequential read speed as well as the CPU load. This lets you know that the DMA (Direct Memory Access) is working properly for the disk.

SCSITool
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 96Kb
Freeware

SCSITOOL is a diagnostics and benchmarking tool for SCSI (storage) devices. Currently supported device types are: harddisk, tape, cd-rom, optical and removable. It has a load of tests, can low level format any number of drives simultaneously, can copy one source drive to more than one target drives, and more.

SMARTUDM
OS: DOS     Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 25Kb
Freeware

This little program will read the S.M.A.R.T. information of your hard drive(s). It supports external UDMA-controllers and will predict possible drive fail.

SSD life
OS: XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 2.3Mb
Freeware

SSD Life analyzes how actively you use your solid-state drive and uses a special algorithm to calculate its estimated lifetime. The entire information about your SSD — from general (manufacturer, model) to technical (whether your drive/system supports TRIM) — is displayed in the main window of SSD Life. The utility supports practically all solid-state drives from most SSD manufacturers – such as Kingston, OCZ, Corsair, Western Digital, Crucial, AData, Patriot.

ThreadMark
OS: Win95/98       Download Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 480Kb
Adaptec’s ThreadMark benchmark measures multithreaded I/O performance on computers running Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 95/98. You can use ThreadMark to compare the performance of different disk drives and host adapters, in order to find the optimal I/O solution for your Windows desktop environment. Because ThreadMark uses the same Win32 API calls that other applications use, it makes unbiased performance measurements on any SCSI or EIDE disk drive or host adapter.

Victoria 3.52
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 32Kb
Freeware

Victoria is a powerful HDD information and diagnostic utility. It supports IDE and SATA drives. Victoria has a lot of useful features, including: full HDD information, disk image creation, 9 disk tests, surface scan, low-level format, Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM), S.M.A.R.T. information, ability to change disk size, and much more!

Victoria 4.46 for Windows
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 600Kb
Freeware

This is a version of Victoria for Windows. Being a powerful HDD information and diagnostic utility, it has the same functionality as its counterpart for DOS. But it also have some benefits, like: low CPU load, more convenient user interface, multitasking and multithreading.

xHDDSpeed
OS: DOS  Download   Rating: 4/5 - 23Kb
Freeware

xHDDSpeed tests the performance of a hard drive. It performs such tests as average seek time, access time, linear speed, etc. The program also gives some information about the drive.

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