HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T.
HDD Guardian is a front-end for smartctl, a tool for querying S.M.A.R.T. data of your hard drive. With HDD Guardian you can survey your hard disk health, preventing data loss due to hard drive death.
The key features of HDD Guardian are:
- easy device overview, with temperature, overall health and bad sectors indication
- display an optional icon into the tray area for each local device
- HDD Guardian tray icon change shield color if a device is failing
- 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 error log
- allow to set device-specific attribute format and firmware debug
- allow to set warnings behaviour
- support for external (USB) devices, also in docking stations
See also the FAQ and known issues and the list of supported and unsupported controllers.
Here you can get the latest news.
RELEASE NOTES
- now HDD Guardian needs .NET Framework 4.5;
- changed Overview, Manage and System layout;
- package now include smartctl 6.4 (issue Id #1590);
- added a specific debug for devices under an ASMedia 106x SATA controller into Manage -> Advanced page (discussion #646757);
- is possible to add devices that smartctl or HDD Guardian can't detect from Settings -> Device detection page (discussion #646400);
- is possible to export events log also in comma-separated values format (discussion #652826);
- now settings are saved inside HDD Guardian folder;
- new layout for tracking and warns of disk parameters on Settings window;
- now is possible to play a sound or power off PC when a device is failing or the temperature of a device is too high or in both cases;
- links to Google Code, mail and support group;
- custom temperature setup: threshold is provided by the disk (if it's not disponible the threshold is 50°C/122°F);
Changelog & Download page: http://hddguardian.codeplex.com/releases/view/624166
Homepage: http://hddguardian.codeplex.com/
Download:
Installer
http://hddguardian.codeplex.com/downloads/get/1597672
Portable: