Hard drive life monitor?

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Looking for a tool that can tell me when my hard drives are expected to die. Can anyone recommend a (preferably) free one?

@fixer1234 No, I didn't even know about SMART at the time of this writing. I think I had a ticking harddrive and I just wanted to know if it was about to crap out or not (it's actually still working almost 5 years later!) — mpen, Jan 28 '15 at 07:08
Try one of the recommended SMART tools to verify that your drive has the feature (not all older drives did, especially ones that were small by today's standards). If not, update your question. — fixer1234, Jan 28 '15 at 07:21

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '10 at 07:55

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You need a SMART monitor, a program that displays the health statistics of the hard drives.

GSmartControl runs on Windows 7 and is free.

answered Feb 28 '10 at 07:55

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Link is dead now. – mpen Jan 28 '15 at 07:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '10 at 11:08

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I'd thoroughly recommend HDTune - it has a benchmarking capability, access to SMART information and other device information, and a low-level surface scan (to detect bad sectors etc)

answered Feb 28 '10 at 11:08

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '10 at 12:29

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Hard Disk Sentinel works for me.

answered Feb 28 '10 at 12:29

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '10 at 10:03

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Also, there's DiskSmartView from NirSoft. I also highly recommend NirSoft utilities.

answered Jul 07 '10 at 10:03

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 07 '10 at 10:19

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Also you can try HDDLife. It's quite useful tool for server monitoring. You can get for free only trial on offical site, but you can google it and find some patched version on some public torrent tracker.

answered Jul 07 '10 at 10:19

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Hard drive life monitor?

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