[SOLVED] hdd health software for Windows 10

[berlin88]

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and was wondering if there was any freeware software like HD Tune for Windows 10? I looked on the HD Tune website, but the free version doesn't have support for Windows 10.

I need something like HD Tune that I can use for Windows 10 to monitor the health of my hard drives. A free version is preferable.

Thank you for helping me.

 

[USAFRet]

Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems, predict disk failure.

www.hdsentinel.com

HDDScan - FREE HDD and SSD Test Diagnostics Software

HDDScan is a Free test tool for hard disk drives, USB flash, RAID volumes and SSD drives. The utility can check your disk for bad blocks in various test modes.

hddscan.com

https://www.lifewire.com/free-hard-drive-testing-programs-2626183

 

[USAFRet]

However....the best "health tool" is a good backup routine.
Drives can go from great to dead faster than you might think.

 

[berlin88]

However....the best "health tool" is a good backup routine.
Drives can go from great to dead faster than you might think.

Thank you for the response.

I have 1x 1TB Samsung SSD and 1x WD 4TB HDD Black and 2x WD 2TB HDD Blue. 1 for OS, 1 for games, 1 for music and 1x for backup files.

 

[Nemesia]

Thank you for the response.

I have 1x 1TB Samsung SSD and 1x WD 4TB HDD Black and 2x WD 2TB HDD Blue. 1 for OS, 1 for games, 1 for music and 1x for backup files.

If all your important files are in a backup and you have more than 1 location on two separate drive it's good. You just don't want any of your drive to fail where important files would be lost forever. Those files have to be somewhere else too. If you live on that principle and you keep thinking that any of your drive can die at any moment and you're in a situation that you don't care because any 1 drive that fail would result in just a replacement of that drive and your files are ok that is the best you can ask for. At that point you really stop worrying about failing drives.

 

[fzabkar]

I would recommend that you avoid the HDD manufacturers' tools, unless you need a failure code for RMA purposes.

SeaTools in particular is worthless as a SMART tool. It can award a passing grade to a drive with 20,000 bad sectors.

I would go with CrystalDiskInfo and GSmartControl, both freeware. Smartctl is the Linux version of GSmartControl.

IMHO, Victoria for Windows is the most versatile surface scanner. It will tell you if a particular sector is "slow". That is, it will identify those sectors that require one or more read retries. It has numerous other features, including SMART.

https://hdd.by/victoria/
https://hdd.by/Victoria/Victoria535.zip

HDDScan is another good surface scanner which can identify unreliable sectors.

MHDD is a DOS based surface scanner. It is not prone to interference from background tasks, as are Windows based tools.

 

[berlin88]

I just downloaded hd tune pro, the free version and it works for Windows 10.

Here are the numbers I got for my new WD 4TB Black drive. Does everything look ok? Should I be concerned about the reallocated sector count?

HD Tune: WDC WD4005FZBX-00K5W Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 16 0 Ok
(02) Throughput Performance 100 100 54 0 Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 100 100 24 0 Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 0 1 Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 5 0 Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 100 67 0 Ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 100 100 20 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 60 0 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 1 Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 100 100 0 1 Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 100 100 0 1 Ok
(C2) Temperature 183 183 0 1310750 Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 Ok

Power On Time : 0
Health Status : Ok

 

[fzabkar]

The raw value is 0. Why does that concern you?