Hard Drive Inspector 2.2Comments on:

By: tk

tk — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:39:44 +0000

Do NOT update it to 2.22. I’m unsure why I did it. Now I’m stuck with the 14-day trial. =( At least I know the state of my older drive prior.

By: HR

HR — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:17:56 +0000

Great package; alerted me to a heating problem that I did not know existed

By: Big Kahuna

Big Kahuna — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:13:00 +0000

For Fubar #103: Gee, I’m really sorry. ‘polished’ was not meant to be taken ‘literally’ (’in that sense’). I just missed the ” ” ” before clicking Submit (please forgive me; ’sir’ isn’t it ?). So I’ll ’submit’ this: You keep reading your Google, okay. I don’t. Never said anything about it, never will. Don’t ‘put words in my mouth’. I deal with tech sites, manufacturers and sources.

If you are who ‘you’ think you are, you should know there is & always will be more than one field of thought to almost every issue, especially computing. Gee, ‘I’ don’t remember dumping on you when not agreeing with any of your ‘comments’ (sorry…, until now). So show a little respect for other people, okay? You’ve lost mine now. Oh, …have a nice day.

By: Leland

Leland — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:19:05 +0000

I have been using this program since it was on GAOTD a while ago. Back then it was version 2.0 and I think it is very useful. I got the email about this 2 days late so I missed out this time around, but 2.0 works for now and I am happy with it. My only request is that you start getting more tools like these and Frigate 3 here more often. This software is very useful in warning you if your drive is about to die. Be sure to adjust the temperature warning high enough that it is not constantly annoying you. Also, I found the tray icon is black, but that may be tied to using the Royale Noir theme in Windows XP. Overall, very nice!

By: Fubar

Fubar — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:40:25 +0000

#88, almost everything you said is incorrect. Drives aren’t stressed by use. The Google study was based on cooling server drives with refrigeration equipment, which isn’t applicable to home users. There are all sorts of temperature-related issues other than bearings. SMART simply collects statistics. The Google study simply indicated that drives generally don’t show gradual degradation. I’m not going to read it again; it’s been some time since I read it but as I recall, if a drive gave any indication at all, a single serious error increased the probability that the drive would fail within a relatively short time. If the drive survived for a relatively long time after the error, then it was probably going to have a typical lifespan. So, SMART data trends generally aren’t that useful, but SMART does report the serious errors, which are useful. As for rewriting the data on the drive, some drives do that automatically during idle time, and in any case you can use software to do that. Drifting of magnetic domains is a bigger issue than demagnetization. If you’re going to reformat a drive for reliability purposes, do a low-level format. Drives aren’t “polished and worn away”. The heads generally don’t contact the disc surfaces, except when the drive is spun down. In that case, they generally contact landing zones. The disc surfaces are lubricated.

There are numerous negative comments from people who haven’t bothered to read the help file, checked the options, or clicked on the little “?” button that’s available on every window (although, in a somewhat nonstandard location for a Windows application). The settings for alarms and critical temperatures can be changed. SMART thresholds are set by the drive manufacturers, not the program. The way SATA drives measure temperature, the temperature will fluctuate rapidly as use changes (several people’s comments indicate they don’t expect this). #97, a room temp in the 70’s and an SATA drive internal temp around 129 (when running and in use) is pretty common. Your non-ATA drives may measure temperatures differently. For some users experiencing problems with some drives, there’s an option to skip drives that report wrong SMART data.

By: hoang

hoang — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:18:37 +0000

Vietnamese interface is bad

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:58:18 +0000

Now the programme is not detecting my USB! but even now i can transfer data thru USB.. Then why is the programme not detecting the USB? Well my opinion about the programme is that its a good programme,wont cause any crash at startup.. And every helpful in analyzing the hard disk performance..

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:51:55 +0000

Well the application is okay.. But i have some doubts.. When i started th programme, it said there are 2 drives in my pc and bot are working fine.. After 5 minutes i again run the programme and it said, one of my drive miss some critical data and need replacement! I restarted my pc & again started the programmme.. then it said both drives are working fine! why is this discrepancy?

By: david

david — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:10:58 +0000

THIS CRASHED MY COMPUTER!!!!
READING THE COMMENTS HERE, I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE THIS HAPPENED TO EITHER!!!

THE ONES WHO HAVE CRASHED, DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MSVCRT.DLL ERROR AT STARTUP ?????

By: DataHaunt

DataHaunt — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:46:51 +0000

I downloaded the latest version of HD Tune. It not only did not crash my system, but recognized every drive including USB HDD and flash.