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DTemp - HDD
Temp |
| Very simple application for
checking the temperature of your
Hard Drives. Like other apps of this
kind, the Hard Drive has to support
the Check Temp, otherwise it will
not work (for examples most of
Maxtors support it, but most of
Western Digitals do not).
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OVERALL:
GOOD |
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DBAN - HDD
Erasing |
| Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN")
is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of
most computers. DBAN will
automatically and completely delete
the contents of any hard disk that
it can detect, which makes it an
appropriate utility for bulk or
emergency data destruction. Here you
can find more infos about
hard disk
wiping/erasing.
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OVERALL:
EXCELLENT |
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HDD Life |
| HDDlife is a program that will
allow you to control the health of
your hard drive using a simple
interface. Just run the program and
it will show you the list of your
disks with the percentage of their
health left , as well as their
temperature.
HDDlife can work in the
preventative mode when it checks the
health of your hard drives at
regular intervals and informs you
about the results of these checks in
an unobtrusive way. If you get
warned about a possible hard drive
failure.
Very interesting is Just Now!
feature: it is a technology that
allows you to find out the state of
health and performance rate of your
hard drives immediately both when
you start the program for the first
time. There is no need to control
disks over a long period of time!
This app is both freeware and
shareware. All its most important
features can be used for free
without limitations.
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OVERALL: GOOD |
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Active Smart
(shareware) - HDD monitoring |
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Active SMART supports automatic disk
check-up on system loading, constant
tracking of the disks state with an
interval varying from 1 minute to 99
hours.
The program supports the drive
thermal sensors and can be used to
trace the drive temperature and
prevent its overheating. The program
notifies you if the disk temperature
exceeds the pre-assigned value.
Active SMART can shutdown (enable
hibernate mode) your PC
automatically if the hard drive
becomes too hot.
Its main goal is timely detecting
and anticipating any problems,
occurring with the disk, before
the danger of the data loss appears.
At the present time, S.M.A.R.T.
technology is able to predict up to
70% of all hard disk problems.
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OVERALL:
GOOD |
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Acronis Drive
Cleanser - HDD Erasing |
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The best Hard Disk wiper for Windows
I have been able to find. It works
in full multitasking (or if you like
it can be booted from floppy) and
supports many national destruction
standards, like US, German, Russian
and powerful methods, like Gutmann
and Schneier. You can even easily
create a your own standard and use
it for wiping your HD.
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OVERALL:
EXCELLENT |
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Paragon Disk Wiper
Pro (commercial) - HDD
erasing |
| Disk Wiper Professional is
designed for organizations and
professionals that requires an easy,
fast and effective way for
sanitizing hard disks. Disk Wiper
Professional meets US Department of
Defense 5220.22-M, chapter 8-306
sanitizing standards. Select special
overwriting patterns and up to 99
passes to ensure 100% erasing of all
sensitive data. All erasing
proceedings and results can be
exactly verified and printed out. It
fully works in Windows (no
need to reboot and wait hours for HD
erasing). Professional version
costs about 150$,
while Personal version, about 25$,
is by far inferior.
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OVERALL:
QUITE GOOD (professional version)
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