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A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
This is a Program that claims it can check your hard drive and report if it is "dying".
http://www.hddlife.com/
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Re: A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
Having suffered a harddrive failure recently, I have taken to defragmenting and running scandisk regularly. However, the report back from Hitachi (formerly and IBM drive) suggests better cooling. I spent all of £26 on an external drive case with a cooling fan and it is a lot better.
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Re: A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
Here's your first confirmation post on this product.
I procrastinated for several weeks but about two weeks ago, on a whim, I dicided to load it and see what it said about my hard drives..... My main 80g HD showed 10% life and 10% performance. Hmmm... That might explain the s.l.o.w.s. A few days later, it showed 8% life and 8% performance. ACK!! If this thing was right, then it's a wake-up call! I immediatly ran a Windows 2000 backup and then tried to ghost the drive. It wouldn't ghost because of a bad sector. :( Before I could try again, the Drive completly crashed! I didn't have another 80G drive to replace it with and I can't afford to buy one right now but, I did have an old 4G drive from really old computer. I installed windows 2000 and other software on the 4g "C" drive and I am now using my backup external drive for my KMA's. My last backup was a month old so, I still wouldn't have lost it all but, thanks to this product, I was able to get better prepared.
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Re: A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??
just a question. im not implying anything ! |
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Re: A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
Beavis,
I don't think that is possible. I have it loaded on my systems to test it. It seems to read the Performance of the drive and monitors the drives Temperatures, and from this data I think it comes up with how reliable the drive is. But as to making a HD fail, I don't think it would be possible for it to cause a hardware failure. It seems pretty neat, and if it does work, this is awesome. Bdayton, wow that is pretty scary that it was that correct. I wasn't sure if it would be worth it or not, but I guess it is.
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Re: A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
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"Wild" Bill's Entertainment (910)-298-3927 Last edited by bdayton; April 4th, 2005 at 12:10 AM. |
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Re: A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy
I bought a brand new laptop and downloaded this program. It seems to be a cool program but it says my hd peformance is 100% but health is only 41%. Is this bad or good. It says everything is good on the comments. Does anyone have a health status higher than 41% on a brand new drive?
Thanks
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