CrystalDiskInfo [1]
CrystalDiskInfo
A great program to monitor the temperature and health of your drive
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License:
Free (Open source)
Tags:
disk-tool [9], disk-health [10], disk-temperature [11], monitor-harddisk [12], repair-disk [13]
Pros & Cons:
Resident monitoring, alarm for temp and health, shows temp for each drive in system tray, S.M.A.R.T. and general info about internal/external hard drives, settings to adjust AAM /APM.
Must set it up to be a resident and to startup in the system tray for constant monitoring, no surface (block/sector) tests or S.M.A.R.T. tests.
Our Review:
CrystalDiskInfo is a great monitoring program that can warn you if the temperature and the health of your drive is deteriorating.
Its default temperature warning is set to 50 °C/122 °F which can be adjusted. It offers graphs of the accumulated S.M.A.R.T. information. It had no problems telling me almost everything about my external USB hard drive.
I like that it lists the Power On Count as well as the total Power On Hours. This is Open Source software. There is a portable version as well as an installer. Overall this is one of my favorites.
CrystalDiskInfo was reviewed by Gizmos Freeware [14] on