HD Tune: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Hard Drive

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

After two hard drive failures (curse you Hitachi, you are dead to me!) it was time to get serious. Here’s a handy utility called HD Tune that does everything except raise your old drives from the dead. Features include:

* Benchmark: measures the raw performance
o Transfer Rate
o Access Time
o CPU Usage
o Burst Rate
* Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
* Hard Disk Health
o S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
o Power On Time
* Error scan
* Temperature display
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We Say: It even measures temperature? What more can you ask for? Download it Here. Source: HDTune.com