Giveaway of the Day - Hard Drive Inspector NE
June 22, 2007
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Hard Drive Inspector NE is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. This edition has all the functionality of the Professional version, but also takes into account specific features of notebooks.The value of information stored on an average computer hard drive often exceeds the value of the computer itself. But a hard drive is one of the most unreliable internal computer devices. When it crashes (which happens quite frequently), the stored information will be lost fully or partially. Subsequent information recovery is either not possible at all, or constitutes a very sophisticated and expensive procedure that can beperformed only by specialists.
Modern hard drives support S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) that was specially developed to detect upcoming disk failures. Using this technology Hard Drive Inspector NE can monitor the current state of various life-critical parameters describing a disk’s reliability and performance. Hard Drive Inspector NE analyzes this data and warns the user if the parameters indicate a critical reduction of disk reliability. Timely alerts make it possible to copy the data and replace an unreliable disk, thus preventing information loss.
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| System Requirements: | 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista |
| Publisher: | AltrixSoft |
| Homepage: | http://altrixsoft.com/en/hddin... |
| File Size: | 2.42 MB |
| Price: | $39.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on June 22, 2007, this giveaway is not available any more. You can download the trial version of this software at http://altrixsoft.com/en/hddin....
Features:
Year by year notebook computers are replacing usual desktop PCs at work and at home. Notebooks are small and handy, but they are also much more fragile than desktops. For a number of reasons notebook hard drives are even less reliable than those of desktops. These reasons are:
- Shaking. Various jolts and shakings happen frequently during notebook transportation and active work. This expedites deterioration of the mechanical parts of a hard drive;
- Insufficient power supply. When powered by the battery, the notebook hard drive might not get sufficient power because of excessive battery load. In this case the hard drive will not be able to maintain constant rotation speed which increases the probability of information loss;
- High temperature. Heat emission of components of modern notebooks may reach 100 watts. And all those components are located in a small area with weak cooling. In such a harsh environment hard drive temperature is often close to or even exceeds the maximum allowed value (55°C (131°F) for most hard drives). This negatively affects both mechanical (thermal expansion of the platters) and electronic (overheating and possible failure of the controller) parts of a hard drive.
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Nice interface, Good program, Thank you
Thanks for this! My site is ran off of a hard drive and this will help make sure it never fails! This has already found a few problems.
Just another upgrade of the giveawaysofthedays of the 19th february & the 28th march. The upgrade of the 28th march did nothing better dan the previous one. The program is only interesting for those, who missed the earlier gift. So in a scale from 0-10 I give the program 5 points.