Tag Archives: Hard Disk Monitoring

DiskCheckup: Monitor & Record SMART Info To Avoid Crashes

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These days, hard drives can hold vast amounts of data due to their huge capacities. Cost of storage space has decreased rapidly in the last few years, and hard drives upwards of even 1000 GB are available for average home users. The more information, in terms of documents and archives, is stored in a computer, the more valuable it becomes. Even though hard drive technology has improved a lot, there is still a chance that your hard drive might crash and you lose all your data. Taking preemptive measures to prevent your hard drive from a crash can prevent loss of valuable data. However, monitoring the health of your hard disk manually can be time consuming. When a hard disk is working, there is a huge possibility of its temperature increasing during read/write operations. Process-heavy software, such as virtual machines, can also put the hard drive under a lot of stress. In order to keep the hard disk working smoothly, you need to closely monitor its performance. Today, we have an application for Windows called DiskCheckup that allows you keep a close eye on the performance indicators of your hard disk, including Drive Info and SMART Info. More on DiskCheckup after the jump. Read More

Ensure Disk Security & Configure Hard Drive Settings Using Drive-Thru

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Storage devices are an integral part of the system usage for any user. Portable devices when plugged in, lead to auto-runs and other unwanted actions, while local hard drives may not be as private and secure as you require. Drive-Thru is a lightweight drive management utility that enables you to ensure drive security by hiding and/or locking drives holding sensitive data. It allows customizations like disabling auto-runs of both system as well as portable drives (USB, HDD, RAM Disk, etc.). Furthermore, it automatically detects connected drives and extracts detailed, information for subsequent actions, accordingly. It also supports ISO files for booting an operating system or mount/un-mounting purposes. With features like Add to Drive Context Menu, Removable Disk Write-Protection, CleanUp, Defrag & BackUp Path, and other drive monitoring and explorer options, Drive-Thru offers a powerful way to manage your local and removable storage mediums. Read More

TweakNow HD-Analyzer: Scan Drives/Folders To Find Their Reserved Space

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Hard disk drives are getting bigger and better with time, as manufacturers are finding innovative ways to pack in more data space while maintaining compact designs. Due to this fact, drives over a terabyte have become pretty much a standard now. However, with so much given space, data files are also becoming larger in size, taking more and more space, and sooner or later you may have to delete a few files to make room for new ones. One of the most cumbersome task though is to analyze your hard drive to find which files are taking the most space and where are they located, as some people have a habit of storing files randomly on their computers. TweakNow HD-Analyzer is a free tool that lets you scan your drives or any folder to find how much space is being used by each containing folder and files. This process makes it quite easy and quick to examine your disk drives. The application has a user-friendly interface, and offers a pretty good number of options. Read More

HDDScan: All-in-One Hard Drive Tool To Perform Surface Scan & SMART Tests

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Do you often face hard drive crashes and read/write issues while dealing with enormous volumes of data? Perhaps, it’s the time to put your hard disk through a series of tests to measure its overall performance. It happens quite so often that hard disk suddenly halts without showing any type of errors. Using conventional hard drive diagnostic tools in such cases don’t help identify the read/write faults and other like issues. What you probably need is a low-level hard disk diagnostic utility that can perform surface scan of all hard disk volumes to find the potential issues. HDDScan is a powerful, low-level hard disk scan and diagnostic program, which is developed to perform numerous hard disk performance-specific tasks. It supports all types of conventional hard drives including IDE, SATA, SCSI, RAID arrays and external storage mediums including, SD cards, USB, and external hard disks. Read More

View Network, Memory And CPU Usage From System Tray In Ubuntu Linux

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Perhaps the most common way to monitor system resources in Ubuntu is to use System Monitor from the Administration menu. However, it would be much better if one can receive real time monitoring of system resources from the desktop. System Load Indicator is a system tray version of System Monitor (Resources), which allows viewing CPU utilization, system load, hard disk, memory and network information from the system tray in custom colors. You can select specific colors for displaying every category and sub-category for monitoring a system resource. For example, you can select separate colors to view CPU usage by user and system processes. This can be quite useful for finding out the reasons for identifying resource hogging applications, by real time monitoring of resource utilization by applications. Read More