#7280

[v5.2] Argus Monitor – Fan speed control based on all available temperature sources

Hardware-Related
It is widely recognized that utilizing third-party software is advisable for effectively monitoring your machine's components. Because the Task Manager only offers basic information about your hardware, prompting users to seek out software that is both thorough and user-friendly. Of course, there are many software options available in the market, and one of them is Argus Monitor
#6319

TxBENCH – Better benchmark software for storage devices

Hardware-Related
When it comes to hard disk performance testing, AS SSD Benchmark and CrystalDiskMark/CrystalDiskInfo must be the first things you can think of. What AppNee wants to tell you is that they are just popular tools, not the best. If what you need is a real professional hard disk performance testing tool, then TxBENCH is one of them, whose existence is earlier than AS SSD Benchmark, but it is little known because of its low profile.
#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.
#5742

SSD-Z – Comprehensive info viewer for SSD and other disk devices

Hardware-Related
We need to use hardware detection tools when repairing computers or replacing new devices. There is CPU-Z for processors, GPU-Z for graphics cards (NVIDIA graphics cards also have a dedicated CUDA-Z for detecting CUDA cells), and for hard drives a lot of users are generally used to using CrystalDiskInfo, but now we have a better choice: SSD-Z.
#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.
#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.
#2791

[v7.65, v2.08] AIDA64 – World #1 system, hardware monitor & diagnostic tool

Hardware-Related [ Mobile ]
Instructions in advance, after Lavalys's EVEREST (from Canada) was discontinued, FinalWire's AIDA64 (from Hungary) became its successor. EVEREST Ultimate Edition is now AIDA64 Extreme Edition, and EVEREST Corporate Edition is now AIDA64 Business Edition.
#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).
#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, ...
#1499

[v2.5.82] SSDLife Pro – Detect, monitor your SSD health and endurance

Hardware-Related
For the most important storage device in our computer - hard disk, after a period of use, it is necessary to learn about the health status of the hard disk, which is contribute to saving the individual important data, in order to avoid loss.