#2900

[v5.37] Victoria – Professional hard disk bad track scanner & repairer

Hardware-Related
Bad sector (bad track) is one of the most common failures of mechanical hard disk (HDD), which usually characterizes hard disk reads/writes slow, system prompts "... I/O error", program gives "cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error", etc. In these cases, we need use some specially designed tools to correctly detect whether our hard disk has had bad sectors or not, and nip in the bud.
#2585

[v6.00] HD Tune Pro – Representative hard drive test & diagnosis utility

Hardware-Related
As far as I can see, HD Tune Pro has been the best and most popular universal hard disk testing and diagnostic toolkit all the time. It can show you all the performance parameters of any kind of storage media, including Firmware version, Capacity, Serial number, Buffer size, SATA standard, supported UDMA mode and the supported features like read-write speed, burst rate, ...