{"id":9480,"date":"2009-07-01T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2009-07-01T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:21:11","slug":"techbite-hows-your-hard-drive-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/techbite-hows-your-hard-drive-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"TechBite: How&#8217;s Your Hard Drive Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"stevewp\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7654 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p> Hard drives are about as  dependable as a teenager promising to come home by midnight. The more you know  about your drive&#8211;the brand-specific idiosyncrasies and the diagnostic sounds that  drives produce&#8211;the better prepared you are for the inevitable crash. <\/p>\n<p>Hard Drive Inspector is a handy tool  to monitor your drives for spin rate, seek time, and almost 20 other potential  problem spots. The program also supplies specs&#8211;including drive model, firmware  version, and serial number, all perfect when calling for warranty support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The drive&#8217;s temperature is  displayed in the system tray; if the drive gets too toasty (I have mine set for  120 degrees Fahrenheit), you can get an e-mail alert, or better, automatically  put the computer in Standby mode. You can view a summary health report that&#8217;s enough  for most of us; the S.M.A.R.T. report has the details. Hard Drive Inspector  costs $30, but you can <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Hard-Drive-Inspector-Professional\/3000-2086_4-10332580.html\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a> a 15-day trial version to give you a feel for the  tool; the trial is fully functional, though limited to one drive. Nonetheless, it&#8217;ll  tell you everything you&#8217;ll need to know about your drive.<\/p>\n<p>Note: At press time (an antiquated  phrase if I ever heard one), the Hard Drive Inspector&#8217;s site is temporarily down.  You can read about the product by looking at a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/74.125.155.132\/search?q=cache:gaPs0mdVNskJ:www.altrixsoft.com\/+AltrixSoft&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">Google  cache<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> It&#8217;s not as comprehensive as Hard  Drive Inspector, but if you&#8217;d prefer a freebie (of course you would!), download <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/crystalmark.info\/software\/CrystalDiskInfo\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">CrystalDiskInfo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techbite.com\/newsletter\/31\/hard-drive-tools-nifty-search-engines\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>TechBite&#8217;s columnist Steve Bass and PC World Contributing Editor publishes a free weekly newsletter with commentary on the technology products he loves, the strategies for getting the most out of them,and the gotchas that can cause computing misery. Sign up for the newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/techbite.com\/\">here<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"steveb\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p>Hard drives are about as  dependable as a teenager promising to come home by midnight. 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