How healthy is your hard-drive?

2010-04-14 07:21:22

#1

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

http://www.snapfiles.com/downloads/hddh … ealth.html

Aparently my very cheap and older Hitatchi is healthier than both my brand new Samsungs

2010-04-14 07:24:20

#2

Surgeons: U shud proabbly f off u fat prik; +3,097|6748|Gogledd Cymru

How does it calculate the 'health'?

2010-04-14 07:25:35

#3

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

I honestly have no idea.

2010-04-14 07:33:14

#4

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6886|UK

Find out

2010-04-14 07:34:56

#5

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6997|Toronto | Canada

HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000 and XP. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.

Meh, I've been able to predict my HDDs dying so far.

2010-04-14 07:36:51

#6

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Kaspersky says it's clean if that's what you're worried about..

Apparently it scans for bad sectors and stuff? I dunno.

2010-04-14 10:11:36

#7

Rod Foxx: Warblgarbl; +78|6242|Perth, Australia

Hmmm. It only detects 4 of my 7 hdd's.

3 of the 4 samsungs are not detecting. Otherwise healthy.

2010-04-14 10:31:52

#8

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6456|Winland

That program is so simplified that it's ridiculous. You can't just make a 'health graph' like that, and you can't make sense of it unless you know what it's taking into the equation, and how. In which case you need to understand the parameters anyhow.

TL;DR, that program is pointless and idiotic, use HD Tune or Everest.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2010-04-16 12:37:35

#9

Rofl_My_Waffle: Member; +11|6950

The program doesn't really work. It is failing to read my hard drives because they are in raid.

My SSD which is not in raid doesn't read either, grr.

It does say 98% but what does that mean? My SSD degraded down to 98%?

Last edited by Rofl_My_Waffle (2010-04-16 12:40:38)

2010-04-16 13:06:53