One of the most common par tin a computer to cause problems and slow the computer down is the hard drive. Diagnosing this was also a bit tricky but some clever people have made this job a little easier.
The key features of HDD Guardian are:
- easy device overview, with temperature, overall health and bad sectors indication
- display an optional icon into the tray area for each local device
- HDD Guardian tray icon change shield color if a device is failing
- monitor virtual devices loaded from a shared smartctl output
- displays device identity information
- perform self-test and displays their results
- allow enabling/disabling S.M.A.R.T., automatic offline data collection (an automatic test performed by device every four hours) and autosave of vendor-specific attributes
- displays attributes information and graphs
- displays device error log
- allow to set device-specific attribute format and firmware debug
- allow to set warnings behaviour
- support for external (USB) devices, also in docking stations
