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HDD Guardian 0.7.1

Author: Samuele Parise
Date: 01/05/2017
Size: 3.01 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP
Downloads: 97142 times

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The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users.

HDD Guardian Features:

automatic translation (if language files do not exist, it automatically loads English). Available languages: English, Italian, and Hungarian;
easy device overview, with temperature, last test result, overall health and bad sectors; displays an optional icon into the tray area for each fixed device;
HDD Guardian tray icons change shield color if a device is failing;
automatically export smartctl output into a specified folder;
monitor virtual devices loaded from a shared smartctl output;
displays device identity information;
perform self-test and displays their results;
allow enabling/disabling S.M.A.R.T., automatic offline data collection (an automatic test performed by device every four hours) and autosave of vendor-specific attributes;
displays attributes, information, and graphs;
displays device capabilities;
displays device error log;
allows you to set device-specific tolerance, attribute format and firmware debugs;
allows you to set warning behaviour;
allows you to monitor SSDs life percentage;
allows you to monitor external devices (requires administrative rights).

Limitations:
You might want to check out the list of supported and unsupported devices

Editor's Note:
The author has decided to no longer continue developing HDD Guardian, you can read about his decision here. We will keep the file downloadable but it will be unsupported.

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