10 Killer application that boost your hard disk health and stability
Hard disk is one of the most important part of our computer and also the most used component. Due to it’s high volume of uses it lose its health day by day and we may lose our hard disk if we not try to look up the error and fix it. Here is some essential tool that will increase the stability of a hard disk.
1. Auslogics Disk Defrag – It is a better version of Windows disk defragment utility. Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern hard disks.
2. SidesWipe – It help you to clean your disk in a way so no data can be recovered by any software further. Very useful for hard disk security and for those who want to secure their data from any outsider after deleting it.
3. TestDisk – It is a powerful free data recovery software. Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table).
4. VSuite Ramdisk – It’s a great solution to hard disk bottleneck. It can greatly reduce the work of hard disk by using computer’s RAM to simulate a hard disk. Access time can be greatly improved to files held on Ramdsiks, and so the throughput of your computer may improve by many times. Besides the service life of a physical hard disk will be prolonged via reducing access.
5. Xinorbis – It’s a simple but powerful hard disk analyser. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk (or directory). It makes it easy to see the contents, structure and file distribution and file composition of a whole hard disk, directory, or mapped network drive. Includes full report creation.
6. HD Tune – It is a Hard Disk utility which measures the performance of a hard disk using benchmarking and show the details report in GUI environment. Also check health status by using SMART. It cans scans the surface for errors and can show the temperature of the hard disk. HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.
7. Disk Checker – It can predict failure of the system disk using the S.M.A.R.T data available. The attributes are vendor specific and so, the health status generated may not be accurate. However, a disk failure can be predicted if sudden decreases in the attributes are seen.
8. EASEUS Partition Manager – EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE disk partitioning utility that offers a range of powerful functions such as resizing partitions, copying partitions, creating new partitions, deleting partitions, formatting partitions, converting partitions, exploring partitions, hiding partitions, changing drive letters, setting active partitions, and a handful of other functions.
9. HDD Health – It is a full-featured failure-prediction agent. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard disks, and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.
10. Hard Disk Serial Number Changer – It help you to change the serial number of a hard disk. Very helpful for trial lover. You don’t need to format your hard disk to re-install a trial software again. This small freeware help you to change the hard drive serial number, this disk serial number is generated by Windows when you format a disk partition, many software and programs be bind to this serial number, with this small disk tool, you can get a new hard drive volume serial number right now, without reformatting your hard drive.




Nice list. I use Auslogics Disk Defrag.
Nice selection Steve.