#5881

[v6.30] Hard Disk Sentinel – HDD health and temperature monitoring tool

Hardware-Related [ Linux Software ]
Hard Disk Sentinel is a professional and powerful HDD/SSD monitoring and analyzing tool for Windows and Linux platforms, developed by Heartfelt Development Services from Hungary. It is mainly used to monitor and alert hard drive activity and temperature to help users avoid data loss before the hard drive fails.
#4781

quietHDD – Make your HDD quiet when working with SSD or another HDD

Hardware-Related
If your laptop has both HDD and SSD installed at the same time (for example: use SSD to load and run the operating system, yet use HDD for storage purpose), then you've probably encountered and endured the bother that HDD makes a clatter every few seconds (that's usually 1, 3, or 10 seconds). Especially if you're using Western Digital, Seagate or Hitachi's hard drive products.
#4217

[v14.00] SSD Fresh – Fast optimize your SSD performance with one-click

Hardware-Related
Solid-state drives (SSD) have obvious advantages than the traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDD), but do not mistakenly believe that an SSD does not need optimization. However, for the optimization of SSD, many users may just know one optimization setting - a new SSD should be formatted with 4K alignment. In fact, SSD actually has a lot of places that can be optimized for making its speed faster and service life longer.
#3852

[v7.4] AOMEI Backupper – Easily, safely and fastly backup/restore/clone system or hard disk

Backup & Recovery
In the first place, only the users who have lost data can deeply experience and realize the importance and necessity of backuping data on a regular basis. And the data backup software have been so inundant that we have almost no chance to verify and compare them one by one, so that we can pick out the best one. However, I suggest you put AOMEI Backupper at the top of the list of the data backup software you're going to test.
#3851

[v12.0.8] HDClone – Universal cloning tool for hard disk copy/backup/rescue

Backup & Recovery
HDClone is a professional hard disk copying/backuping/rescuing tool from Germany. It can thoroughly copy/clone any data (that is, each byte) on a hard disk to another from the physical or logical layer. This means that, in addition to the backup task of data or hard disk, it can also help you finish the migration work of data or system, as well as the data rescue mission.
#3706

[v12.9] MiniTool Partition Wizard – Intuitive and easy-to-use disk partition manager

Hardware-Related
MiniTool Partition Wizard is capable of direct performing a variety of nondestructive operations (does not destroy the data stored in hard drive) to disk partitions without restarting the computer. This includes: modify partition size, copy/clone partition, create/delete/format partition, merge/split partition, move/extend partition, change the drive letter, set active partition, convert the format/file system of partition, hide partition, copy protected data on disk, and so on.
#3432

[v7.5] IM-Magic Partition Resizer – Easiest and fastest way to merge or resize partition

Hardware-Related
Users who often play with computers and move files back and forth for collating generally have such a need: merging scattered multiple small partitions into a large one - partition extending; splitting a big partition into several small ones - partition shrinking. Both are collectively referred to as partition resizing/redistributing/reallocating.
#3283

[v11.5] RamDisk Plus – Convert RAM to virtual disk 10x/50x faster than SSD/HDD

Hardware-Related
First of all, about the speed of storage media, AppNee wants everyone to know one fact: RAM = (10x) SSD = (50x) HDD. In addition, we all know that: now, the memory capacity of any new computer is more than 4 GB; Meanwhile, operating system and software also gradually abandon their 32-bit edition that could not take full advantage of RAM bigger than 4 GB. Another fact is, to some extent, our RAM is becoming excess...
#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.
#2785

CrystalDiskInfo – Sought-after hard drive health monitor

Hardware-Related
The data stored in hard drive is almost always important (also vital for few guys), so it's necessary to regularly check their health status. CrystalDiskInfo is an open-source, free hard disk detection tool from Japan. It can provide comprehensive health info of HDD/SSD through reading its S.M.A.R.T. data (which can be used to monitor and analyze the health condition of hard drive in real time).