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Active SMART is a the hard disk drive monitoring and failure prediction software. It uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to monitor the health status of hard disk drives, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fail. If a fault is detected, you are notified with various local alerting options or you can enable remote notifications via e-mail or other network mail applications with the drive ID and the time of the first fault. Active SMART monitors all important HDD parameters. You can track every S.M.A.R.T. parameter of your HDD, and get the information about every drive's attribute: attribute's value, it's threshold level and worst value for the attribute. Also it shows the information about HDD: serial number, drive logical information, current mode and other.

You can also download Active SMART SCSI edition with SCSI drives support. Active SMART SCSI edition supports hard drives on SCSI controllers and SCSI RAID arrays. Active SMART SCSI edition supports up to 4 IDE/ATA and up to 8 SCSI drives.

CHDDSPEED is a console utility, which tests the performance of various block devices (HDD, CD, Flash, etc.). This version (0.1) includes two tests: multisector read test and random read test.

Disk Bench tests your hard drive speed in a real life situation not in a benchmarking environment. All it does is copies a file from A to B, times the time it took, and deletes the file from B again. Theoretically, it can test not only hard drives. You will need to have .net framework installed. You can get this from windowsupdate or from MSDN Downloads.

This program tests the speed of drives attached to your computer. Disk Speed reports the linear read transfer rate, the random read transfer rate and also the access time of the drive.

DiskSpeed32 is a hard drive speed analyzer. DiskSpeed32 reads sequently sectors of hard drive and plots a dependence of reading speed by cylinder number. Allows to test formatted and not formatted hard drives as well. Allows to check hard drives performance and to find mapped tracks on hard drives.

This program will measure the performance of your hard drives, running under Windows NT.

This program measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. It features a realtime graphical display.

HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. In Windows 95/98 it uses a special kernel mode VXD to get maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system. HD Tach tests the drive's random access time, sequential read, CPU utilization ect.

IDEdrive interrogates your IDE-drives and displays detailed information about them (geometry, features, transfer modes, etc.).

Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was developed by the Intel Corporation. Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). Iometer is also available for Linux and Solaris. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40179&release_id=159909

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations: read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read, pread, mmap, aio_read, aio_write.

Quick Bench is a small utility to check that your disks are configured properly by benching them and getting the average sequential read speed as well as the CPU load. This lets you know that the DMA (Direct Memory Access) is working properly for the disk.

SCSITOOL is a diagnostics and benchmarking tool for SCSI (storage) devices. Currently supported device types are: harddisk, tape, cd-rom, optical and removable. It has a load of tests, can low level format any number of drives simultaneously, can copy one source drive to more than one target drives, and more.

This little program will read the S.M.A.R.T. information of your hard drive(s). It supports external UDMA-controllers and will predict possible drive fail.

Adaptec?s ThreadMark benchmark measures multithreaded I/O performance on computers running Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 95/98. You can use ThreadMark to compare the performance of different disk drives and host adapters, in order to find the optimal I/O solution for your Windows desktop environment. Because ThreadMark uses the same Win32 API calls that other applications use, it makes unbiased performance measurements on any SCSI or EIDE disk drive or host adapter.

xHDDSpeed tests the performance of a hard drive. It performs such tests as average seek time, access time, linear speed, etc. The program also gives some information about the drive.