![]() You get a big display of your drive's overall status-a big blue 'good' or a big red 'bad'-its current operating temperature, how many times it has been turned on and how many hours it has been in operation (very interesting!) A listbox in the bottom shows the detailed S.M.A.R.T. Most important are of course the diagnostics. You're also told what interface it uses (helps you make sure that, for example, a S-ATA II drive is not erroneously using S-ATA I in backwards-compatibility mode, which would make it slower than it needs to be), and what features are enabled (most notably, to make sure that an SSD has TRIM enabled, and a hard disk doesn't, which can otherwise be pretty hard to find out in Windows). Upon clicking a drive, you get all the basic information such as model and serial number, total size, firmware version, cache size, rotational speed, etc. information, i.e., thinks it's about to die. A LED shows you at one glance if one drive reports critical S.M.A.R.T. Just click the drive you are interested in (any partitions/drive letters it holds are displayed to help you). You can instantly see where to find the information you need, even if you're not knowledgable about drives and their internals. The interface is very clean and simple to use. ![]() That's always a very important offering for anything related to drive health. CRYSTALDISKINFO WINDOWS 10 INSTALLYou can get CrystalDiskInfo in a portable archive if you want, so you don't need to install anything. The Intel storage controller driver that informed me of this ( RapidStorage for Enterprises) did so flawlessly, which I am immensely thankful for, but it did not give me any more information apart from the fact that the drive was "at risk". ![]() status of a hard disk drive that I was informed was on the brink of failing. I used it to more closely examine the S.M.A.R.T. A great hard disk monitoring application. ![]()
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