Free Hard Drive Diagnostics Software HDDScan

HDDScan is a freeware utility for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays, Flash USB and SSD drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.

HDDScan can be useful for performing the regular "health test" for your drive and predicting its degradation, so you will be able to prevent data loss and backup your files before you will have to contact the data recovery service.

Additionally, software can be used as the hard disk temperature monitor and reading/writing benchmark – performance graph is displayed for every test.

Supported storage devices:

* IDE (ATA) and SATA HDD.
* SCSI (SAS) HDD.
* External USB drives and all major USB boxes (see Appendix A).
* FireWire or IEEE 1394 HDD (see Appendix A).
* RAID volumes made of ATA (IDE) / SATA / SCSI HDDs (surface tests only).
* USB Flash (pen drives) – surface tests only.
* SATA / ATA SSD – solid state drives (NEW).


Requirements:

* PC with CPU 1.5 GHz and RAM 256 Mb.
* OS Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 or SP3, Windows Server 2003 (with restrictions), Windows Vista (NEW) or Windows 7 (NEW).
* The program shouldn’t be run from a read-only device/media.

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