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.
Features:
- automatic translation (if language files doesn't exist, it automatically loads english). Available languages: english, italian and hungarian
- easy device overview, with temperature, last test result, overall health and bad sectors; displays an optional icon into the tray area for each fixed device
- HDD Guardian tray icons change shield color if a device is failing
- automatically export smartctl output into a specified folder
- 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 capabilities
- displays device error log
- allows you to set device-specific tolerance, attribute format and firmware debugs
- allows you to set warning behaviour
- allows you to monitor SSDs life percentage
- allows you to monitor external devices (requires administrative rights).
Limitations: You might want to check out the list of supported and unspported devices
Author: Samuele Parise
Size: 2.59 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP