A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy

[MTUSUPPORT]

This is a Program that claims it can check your hard drive and report if it is "dying".

http://www.hddlife.com/

[SabreT]

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.

[bdayton]

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.

[Beavis]

is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??

just a question. im not implying anything !

[MTUSUPPORT]

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.

[bdayton]

Originally Posted by Beavis

is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??

just a question. im not implying anything !

Aside from just beating the drive to death, (Which it did not, and java programs and windows do a pretty good job of that by themselves), I don't see how that would be possible.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Beavis

is it possible that this program could cause your hard drive to crash ??

just a question. im not implying anything !

NO!

[Azkaraoke4]

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