HDDScan is a free program for low-level HDD diagnostics.
This program support IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards.

The program can scan the surface, view SMART attributes, adjust AAM, APM (Power Management), etc.

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Hitachi Feature Tool will allow you to control some of the features of the IBM Deskstar and Travelstar high performance ATA hard disk drives and supports 48-bit addressing, so it will work with the new large capacity drives.

This version adds support for our latest drives.

features of “IBM – Hitachi Feature Tool”:

· Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
Change the drive Automatic Acoustic Management settings to the:
· Lowest acoustic emanation setting (Quiet Seek Mode), or
· Maximum performance level (Normal Seek Mode).
· Change the predefined capacity of the drive. This option can be used in situations where there is a BIOS limitation and the drive is not recognized. See the Users Guide for specific details.
· Switch the Ultra DMA mode (replaces the IBMATASW utility)
· Change Advanced Power Mode – allows you to change between the lowest power consumption and the highest power consumption (maximum performance level).
· Show Drive Temperature – shows the current drive temperature in Celsius and Farenheit.

With CrystalDiskMark you can benchmark your HDD, enable you to rapidly measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:

· Sequential reads/writes
· Random 4KB/512KB reads/writes
· Text copy
· Change dialog design
· internationalization (i18n)

Requirements:

· IE 6.0 or later
· Font Tahoma
· DPI : 96(100%) – 120(125%)

From everyone here at Piriform, the company that brought you CCleaner and Recuva… we now bring you a file defragmentation tool… Defraggler!

It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!

And remember like all Piriform products, Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use.

CheckDisk is a free program that will help you to rapair disk errors, and this program need chkdsk.exe, supplied with the Windows operating systems.

You can select either standard or full tests. The full test additionally performs a sector check. It is capable of finding bad sectors on your disk and marking them as such. CheckDisk will work with HDDs (including SCSI and RAID), removable media and CDs.