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HDD Guardian

HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T. Created by samael76

Free Open Source
Windows
Discontinued

The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users.

HDD Guardian requires .NET Framework 4.0 and is actually tested on Windows XP SP3 32 bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

HDD Guardian alert in case of imminent failure, temperature threshold or vital parameter change. More Info »

Link to official HDD Guardian site

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Features

Hardware Monitoring Portable Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

Categories

OS & Utilities System & Hardware

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Discontinued diagnostic hard-disk hard-drive harddisk-diagnostic hdd performance-testing smart-utility test-manager

HDD Guardian was added by Apaosha in Aug 2013 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated May 2018. It's possible to update the information on HDD Guardian or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

HDD Guardian is discontinued

Project has been discontinued per notice: http://hddguardian.codeplex.com/

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