Active@ Hard Disk Monitor Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Active@ Hard Disk Monitor for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is CrystalDiskInfo, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Active@ Hard Disk Monitor and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Active@ Hard Disk Monitor are SpeedFan, GSmartControl, HD Tune and Hard Disk Sentinel.

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  1. CrystalDiskInfo icon
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    Open-source utility for monitoring S.M.A.R.T. data, disk temperature and more. Offers portable use, dark mode, no ads or tracking, and supports 30+ languages. Designed to provide an accurate health status and includes features such as temporary file deletion and file recovery options.

    43 CrystalDiskInfo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. SpeedFan icon
     254 likes

    SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers and controls the fans if possible.

    53 SpeedFan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. GSmartControl icon
     95 likes

    GSmartControl provides a GUI for smartctl from smartmontools, allowing users to monitor and control SMART data on hard drives. It supports health inspection, runs diagnostic tests, and warns about potential drive failures, ensuring maintenance and optimal disk performance.

    34 GSmartControl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. HD Tune icon
     142 likes

    HD Tune is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and more!.

    55 HD Tune alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Provides advanced monitoring for HDDs and SSDs with S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics, predicts hardware failures, schedules automatic backups, benchmarks drive performance, logs temperatures, repairs disk errors, supports tests, notifications, and multi-drive configurations.

    30 Hard Disk Sentinel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MS-DOS
     
  6. Victoria icon
     49 likes

    Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive.

    25 Victoria alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. HDDScan icon
     25 likes

    HDDScan is a freeware utility for storage devices diagnostics (HDD, RAID, Flash). The program can scan storage device for bad blocks, show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.

    30 HDDScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Macrorit Disk Scanner is a third party disk surface portable tool for scan disk bad sectors which provides you with better options and better performance than Windows native disk scanner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. MHDD icon
     26 likes

    MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

    MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).

    This software can make precise diagnostic of the.

    22 MHDD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Diskovery icon
     5 likes

    Diskovery collects and displays the details of data storage facilities of the computer, including its physical drives, disk arrays, partitions, volumes and mount points.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Argus Monitor icon
     14 likes

    Monitoring temperatures and status of system components such as CPU, GPU and hard disk drive, fan speeds

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. SeaTools icon
     10 likes

    SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer.

    30 SeaTools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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