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PassMark DiskCheckup

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PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability.

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  • Free Personal • Proprietary

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  • AU flagAustralia

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  • Windows  Platforms: Windows XP, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, Vista and Windows 7.
SMART info shows historical values and predicted failure date
SMART history shows every historical value for every disk property
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Allows you to run SMART self-tests and saves the results
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  1.  Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

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    Proprietary and Free Personal product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about PassMark DiskCheckup, and it has gotten 7 likes

PassMark DiskCheckup was added to AlternativeTo by totoropuff on Jul 1, 2011 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022. PassMark DiskCheckup is sometimes referred to as DiskCheckup.

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endolith
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•Jul 16, 2013
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I thought this was a good program because it keeps historical records of every SMART parameter. However

  1. It doesn't save the raw values, only the 0-100 values
  2. It doesn't allow you to graph them or export them for graphing elsewhere
  3. The raw values are not always displayed correctly. For instance, it shows my command timeout as 17180262541. A huge number! Must be dying! But in reality the binary raw value has 3-parts: 0x0004 0x0006 0x008d (4, 6, 141) which should be displayed separately
  4. It doesn't provide any help on what each parameter means

What is PassMark DiskCheckup?

PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, the system administrator can receive analytical information from the hard drive to determine a possible future failure of the hard drive.

SMART monitors elements of possible long term drive failure, such as 'Spin Up Time', the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on and the hard disk temperature.

DiskCheckup displays the current values of the SMART attributes, along with the Threshold value for that attribute. If an attribute drops below its threshold, the drive cannot guarantee that it will be able to meet its specifications in the future.

Note that SMART attributes change slowly over time and are helpful attempts to diagnose the life span of a particular drive. DiskCheckup monitors these changes over a long period and predict the date (if available) of the Threshold Exceed Condition (TEC), which is displayed on the main window.

DiskCheckup can also execute built-in Disk Self Test (DST) routines implemented by the vendor to detect drive failures. There are two main self test routines: Short Test and Extended Test. The results of these tests are displayed in DiskCheckup.

DiskCheckup also displays device information, such as the drive geometry, serial number, model number, media rotation rate, and supported features.

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