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Most modern operating systems have been designed to work efficiently with Advanced Format drives. For optimum performance, it is important to ensure that the drive is partitioned correctly and that data is written in 4K blocks by both the operating system, and the application.

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting data.

Active SMART - is hard-drive deagnostic and file usage information tool. It uses the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks to timely detect and anticipate any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.

Diskscan is intended to provide the information needed to decide if a disk is good or not, be it an HDD or an SSD it is likely to be holding important data and if you have a suspicion that it is failing it is also important to know how bad is it down the road.

A HDD and SSD virtual LED program which can stay on system tray and display disk activity. Lot of advanced options are available such is display disk activity and interact with keyboard lights.

hd-idle is a utility program for spinning-down external disks after a period of idle time. Since most external IDE disk enclosures don't support setting the IDE idle timer, a program like hd-idle is required to spin down idle disks automatically.

An opensource, cross-platform, and standalone GUI tool to keep your hard drive(s) alive based on time interval you choose.

Free Disk Cloning Software Fastest For Windows.

Smart Disk Checker is a free software that allows you to check the health of your storage devices (HDs, SSDs, USB keys, etc.) in order to prevent failures and data loss. SDC is the most reliable software to check health status, especially on SSD.

is a utility to change the power management and performance settings of hard disks and CD/DVD/BD drives. It offers detailed settings to save power, reduce noise or increase performance. Drives can be put in standby immediately by pressing a button.

Free HDD LED shows hard and/or SSD disk drive activity in real time in the system tray area and on screen.