How can I read my hard drive’s SMART status in Windows 7?












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How can I read the S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7, either automatically or manually?










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  • possible duplicate of When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?

    – Tom Wijsman
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  • crystaldisk, gsmartcontrol

    – Trevor Boyd Smith
    Sep 14 '16 at 0:02








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    cmd -> wmic diskdrive get status

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How can I read the S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7, either automatically or manually?










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  • possible duplicate of When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?

    – Tom Wijsman
    Oct 10 '10 at 19:51











  • crystaldisk, gsmartcontrol

    – Trevor Boyd Smith
    Sep 14 '16 at 0:02








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    cmd -> wmic diskdrive get status

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How can I read the S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7, either automatically or manually?










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  • possible duplicate of When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?

    – Tom Wijsman
    Oct 10 '10 at 19:51











  • crystaldisk, gsmartcontrol

    – Trevor Boyd Smith
    Sep 14 '16 at 0:02








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    cmd -> wmic diskdrive get status

    – Wiffzack
    Feb 8 '17 at 15:52



















  • possible duplicate of When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?

    – Tom Wijsman
    Oct 10 '10 at 19:51











  • crystaldisk, gsmartcontrol

    – Trevor Boyd Smith
    Sep 14 '16 at 0:02








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    cmd -> wmic diskdrive get status

    – Wiffzack
    Feb 8 '17 at 15:52

















possible duplicate of When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?

– Tom Wijsman
Oct 10 '10 at 19:51





possible duplicate of When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?

– Tom Wijsman
Oct 10 '10 at 19:51













crystaldisk, gsmartcontrol

– Trevor Boyd Smith
Sep 14 '16 at 0:02







crystaldisk, gsmartcontrol

– Trevor Boyd Smith
Sep 14 '16 at 0:02






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cmd -> wmic diskdrive get status

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cmd -> wmic diskdrive get status

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HDTune works on Windows 7 too.



Screenshot of HDTune



A blog-post reference.






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  • Note: The 2.5 version only read a 2TB disk as ~250GB, but the 5.7 Pro Trial version I tried does read the full capacity correctly.

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    Nov 2 '17 at 2:18



















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HDTune is a good commercial software. Speedfan works too, which is free. The trick is you will need to start as Administrator under Windows 7 to see the hard disks. It also works in x64.



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    With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

    – rakslice
    Jun 30 '12 at 6:05













  • speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

    – Abhishek Dujari
    May 4 '16 at 10:45











  • @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

    – barlop
    Apr 5 '17 at 12:25











  • @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

    – Abhishek Dujari
    Apr 6 '17 at 16:07











  • @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

    – barlop
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GSmartControl




GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.




Free open source cross platform GUI for smartmontools.






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    Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

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    Sep 24 '13 at 11:16






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    @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

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Go to a command prompt and type:



wmic


then at the wmic:rootcli> prompt:



diskdrive get status


Or if you want other information, you can try options other than "status". The other options are found here.






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    wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

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    Nov 27 '15 at 9:47






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    All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

    – jww
    Feb 22 '16 at 6:40






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    @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

    – Oleh Nechytailo
    Mar 21 '16 at 14:33






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    this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

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  • All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

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S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools:




smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.





  • command-line tools

  • works on Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1

  • support quite a few USB devices: Supported USB-Devices






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  • Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

    – not-a-user
    Nov 19 '15 at 10:17











  • Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

    – Matthieu
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HD Sentinel! Best ever, bar none!






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  • Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

    – gaborous
    Feb 14 '15 at 19:18






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    They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

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PassMark DiskCheckup is free for personal use. Known issues of V3.0 (Build 1003):




  • Hardware RAID and SCSI are not supported. But dynamic disks (software RAID) are supported.

  • The Silicon Image SIL0680 Ultra-133 ATA RAID Controller has a bug which can cause a system lockup when the SMART data is accessed.. This bug exists in the current driver version, 1.0.1.7 and presumably in previous versions.

  • TEC predictions about future failure dates should be taken as a guide only and should not be considered accurate.

  • The majority of newer drives connected via USB and Firewire are supported. However, older drives may not be supported due to the protocol bridge on the hard disk not supporting SMART commands)






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  • Simple and works.

    – Konrads
    Dec 7 '12 at 11:30



















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CrystalDiskInfo
is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.




  • Supports a part of external USB disks

  • Monitoring health status and temperature

  • Alert Mail

  • Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information

  • Control AAM/APM settings


and more ...




MIT license, also available as a portable w/o ads zip.



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  • Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

    – Nelson
    Feb 15 '17 at 3:01






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    This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

    – Chang Qian
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Now there is open source HDD Guardian, which is a graphical user interface for smartctl.



It emerged in 2014, has a good GUI, is stable (at least I haven't noticed any bugs after working a while). Personally, I really appreciate this application.



UPDATE(!): Looks like the project is closed






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    I've been trying a few out and I've settled on the free Acronis Drive Monitor



    http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/hard-drive-health/






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      One more option, you could have a look at your drive manufacturer's site in case they have tools that can interpret your particular drive's status. Some have extra settings, firmware updaters etc.



      SSDs in particular tend to have these extras.






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        Powershell, WMI:



        gwmi Win32_DiskDrive | select Caption,Status





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        • gwmi: Not found

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        Try the free version of HDD Regenerator. It shows in real time the changes of temperature of the HD, warns if it is too hot and shows full S.M.A.R.T. report.






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          This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

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        If you have a Western Digital drive, then there is a diagnostics utility to view the SMART status.



        https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx#WD_softwarepc




        This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.



        On the main program screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.







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          You can get yourself Hard 5.25'' hard drive sled enclosure and it will tell you smart status as long as you enable it in BIOS.



          Software like WD diagnostic tools gives you same SMART status as hard drive bays give you, enclosures just display SMART status using color coded lights






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            If you have an Intel drive, then you can use Intel® SSD Toolbox. On the updside, you don't need third party software or drivers (assuming you trust Intel).



            Unfortunately, it appears the pages for the toolbox and the search functionality, are broken so you can't find it by searching Intel's site either. You can't even search for it by item number 18455 or 80097.






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              HDTune works on Windows 7 too.



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              • Note: The 2.5 version only read a 2TB disk as ~250GB, but the 5.7 Pro Trial version I tried does read the full capacity correctly.

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              • Note: The 2.5 version only read a 2TB disk as ~250GB, but the 5.7 Pro Trial version I tried does read the full capacity correctly.

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              • Note: The 2.5 version only read a 2TB disk as ~250GB, but the 5.7 Pro Trial version I tried does read the full capacity correctly.

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              Note: The 2.5 version only read a 2TB disk as ~250GB, but the 5.7 Pro Trial version I tried does read the full capacity correctly.

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              Note: The 2.5 version only read a 2TB disk as ~250GB, but the 5.7 Pro Trial version I tried does read the full capacity correctly.

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              HDTune is a good commercial software. Speedfan works too, which is free. The trick is you will need to start as Administrator under Windows 7 to see the hard disks. It also works in x64.



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                With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

                – rakslice
                Jun 30 '12 at 6:05













              • speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

                – Abhishek Dujari
                May 4 '16 at 10:45











              • @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

                – barlop
                Apr 5 '17 at 12:25











              • @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

                – Abhishek Dujari
                Apr 6 '17 at 16:07











              • @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

                – barlop
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              HDTune is a good commercial software. Speedfan works too, which is free. The trick is you will need to start as Administrator under Windows 7 to see the hard disks. It also works in x64.



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                With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

                – rakslice
                Jun 30 '12 at 6:05













              • speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

                – Abhishek Dujari
                May 4 '16 at 10:45











              • @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

                – barlop
                Apr 5 '17 at 12:25











              • @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

                – Abhishek Dujari
                Apr 6 '17 at 16:07











              • @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

                – barlop
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              HDTune is a good commercial software. Speedfan works too, which is free. The trick is you will need to start as Administrator under Windows 7 to see the hard disks. It also works in x64.



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              HDTune is a good commercial software. Speedfan works too, which is free. The trick is you will need to start as Administrator under Windows 7 to see the hard disks. It also works in x64.



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                With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

                – rakslice
                Jun 30 '12 at 6:05













              • speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

                – Abhishek Dujari
                May 4 '16 at 10:45











              • @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

                – barlop
                Apr 5 '17 at 12:25











              • @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

                – Abhishek Dujari
                Apr 6 '17 at 16:07











              • @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

                – barlop
                Apr 6 '17 at 16:17
















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                With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

                – rakslice
                Jun 30 '12 at 6:05













              • speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

                – Abhishek Dujari
                May 4 '16 at 10:45











              • @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

                – barlop
                Apr 5 '17 at 12:25











              • @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

                – Abhishek Dujari
                Apr 6 '17 at 16:07











              • @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

                – barlop
                Apr 6 '17 at 16:17










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              With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

              – rakslice
              Jun 30 '12 at 6:05







              With a tool that integrates with hddstatus.com's analysis, as pictured, if there are any problems, you'll see warnings below the table with specific info and advice about them.

              – rakslice
              Jun 30 '12 at 6:05















              speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

              – Abhishek Dujari
              May 4 '16 at 10:45





              speedfan is awesome no doubt. Thanks for the blast-from-the-past. However I found its not detecting most externally attached drives. It will detect some and for most general purposes it should be good enough

              – Abhishek Dujari
              May 4 '16 at 10:45













              @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

              – barlop
              Apr 5 '17 at 12:25





              @Vangel and have you found nothing else that would? if you have found something better that detects more then you should say so and what program it is.

              – barlop
              Apr 5 '17 at 12:25













              @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

              – Abhishek Dujari
              Apr 6 '17 at 16:07





              @barlop I wish I had. I just gave up. It seemed to me that the only way to get any information was to get for e.g. the manufacturers bloated software for different drive which provides little information of value and fails on other manufacturers automagically. It seems to me, despite efforts from industry to get the drive manufacturers to clean up their act, this mafia group isn't going to get with the program. It's light bulbs all over again.

              – Abhishek Dujari
              Apr 6 '17 at 16:07













              @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

              – barlop
              Apr 6 '17 at 16:17







              @Vangel i'd be interested if you can name the model of drive whose SMART data you cannot access(you shouldn't paint it like a speedfan problem as you did two comments ago).. it sounds like an interesting question you could ask, too. This may be useful dslreports.com/forum/…

              – barlop
              Apr 6 '17 at 16:17













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              GSmartControl




              GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.




              Free open source cross platform GUI for smartmontools.






              share|improve this answer





















              • 6





                Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

                – mavhc
                Sep 24 '13 at 11:16






              • 3





                @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:20
















              28














              GSmartControl




              GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.




              Free open source cross platform GUI for smartmontools.






              share|improve this answer





















              • 6





                Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

                – mavhc
                Sep 24 '13 at 11:16






              • 3





                @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:20














              28












              28








              28







              GSmartControl




              GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.




              Free open source cross platform GUI for smartmontools.






              share|improve this answer















              GSmartControl




              GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.




              Free open source cross platform GUI for smartmontools.







              share|improve this answer














              share|improve this answer



              share|improve this answer








              edited Oct 26 '14 at 18:38









              Amirreza Nasiri

              1,44892640




              1,44892640










              answered Jun 18 '13 at 15:01









              ryanmonkryanmonk

              43445




              43445








              • 6





                Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

                – mavhc
                Sep 24 '13 at 11:16






              • 3





                @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:20














              • 6





                Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

                – mavhc
                Sep 24 '13 at 11:16






              • 3





                @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:20








              6




              6





              Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

              – mavhc
              Sep 24 '13 at 11:16





              Not only is this free and open source, it's better than many of the others mentioned in this question I've found, it worked when others didn't, and it knew about more SMART fields than others.

              – mavhc
              Sep 24 '13 at 11:16




              3




              3





              @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

              – gaborous
              Feb 14 '15 at 19:20





              @mavhc it's more efficient because it relies on smartmontools which defines its own thresholds instead of the one provided by manufacturers :)

              – gaborous
              Feb 14 '15 at 19:20











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              Go to a command prompt and type:



              wmic


              then at the wmic:rootcli> prompt:



              diskdrive get status


              Or if you want other information, you can try options other than "status". The other options are found here.






              share|improve this answer





















              • 9





                wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

                – Draco Ater
                Nov 27 '15 at 9:47






              • 4





                All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

                – jww
                Feb 22 '16 at 6:40






              • 3





                @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

                – Oleh Nechytailo
                Mar 21 '16 at 14:33






              • 1





                this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

                – Trevor Boyd Smith
                Sep 14 '16 at 0:01











              • All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

                – runamok
                Aug 4 '17 at 17:26


















              27














              Go to a command prompt and type:



              wmic


              then at the wmic:rootcli> prompt:



              diskdrive get status


              Or if you want other information, you can try options other than "status". The other options are found here.






              share|improve this answer





















              • 9





                wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

                – Draco Ater
                Nov 27 '15 at 9:47






              • 4





                All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

                – jww
                Feb 22 '16 at 6:40






              • 3





                @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

                – Oleh Nechytailo
                Mar 21 '16 at 14:33






              • 1





                this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

                – Trevor Boyd Smith
                Sep 14 '16 at 0:01











              • All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

                – runamok
                Aug 4 '17 at 17:26
















              27












              27








              27







              Go to a command prompt and type:



              wmic


              then at the wmic:rootcli> prompt:



              diskdrive get status


              Or if you want other information, you can try options other than "status". The other options are found here.






              share|improve this answer















              Go to a command prompt and type:



              wmic


              then at the wmic:rootcli> prompt:



              diskdrive get status


              Or if you want other information, you can try options other than "status". The other options are found here.







              share|improve this answer














              share|improve this answer



              share|improve this answer








              edited Jul 23 '17 at 3:18









              boot13

              5,19131940




              5,19131940










              answered Aug 18 '15 at 23:31









              CoreyHCoreyH

              755711




              755711








              • 9





                wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

                – Draco Ater
                Nov 27 '15 at 9:47






              • 4





                All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

                – jww
                Feb 22 '16 at 6:40






              • 3





                @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

                – Oleh Nechytailo
                Mar 21 '16 at 14:33






              • 1





                this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

                – Trevor Boyd Smith
                Sep 14 '16 at 0:01











              • All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

                – runamok
                Aug 4 '17 at 17:26
















              • 9





                wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

                – Draco Ater
                Nov 27 '15 at 9:47






              • 4





                All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

                – jww
                Feb 22 '16 at 6:40






              • 3





                @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

                – Oleh Nechytailo
                Mar 21 '16 at 14:33






              • 1





                this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

                – Trevor Boyd Smith
                Sep 14 '16 at 0:01











              • All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

                – runamok
                Aug 4 '17 at 17:26










              9




              9





              wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

              – Draco Ater
              Nov 27 '15 at 9:47





              wmic diskdrive get status in command prompt works too.

              – Draco Ater
              Nov 27 '15 at 9:47




              4




              4





              All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

              – jww
              Feb 22 '16 at 6:40





              All that command does is print "Status" and "OK". It does not even provide the drive name; and it does not provide the S.M.A.R.T. drive status.

              – jww
              Feb 22 '16 at 6:40




              3




              3





              @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

              – Oleh Nechytailo
              Mar 21 '16 at 14:33





              @jww you can specify additional fields in get query, wmic diskdrive get model, name, status, or no fields to get all of them wmic diskdrive

              – Oleh Nechytailo
              Mar 21 '16 at 14:33




              1




              1





              this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

              – Trevor Boyd Smith
              Sep 14 '16 at 0:01





              this command did NOT detect the disk fault. other utilities did: crystaldisk, gsmartmon

              – Trevor Boyd Smith
              Sep 14 '16 at 0:01













              All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

              – runamok
              Aug 4 '17 at 17:26







              All this seems to indicate is if the disk has failed. In crystaldiskinfo I got "caution" and in harddisksentinal I got 4% health. Also the command in windows 10 has no spaces around the commas. So it is: wmic diskdrive get model,name,status.

              – runamok
              Aug 4 '17 at 17:26













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              S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools:




              smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.





              • command-line tools

              • works on Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1

              • support quite a few USB devices: Supported USB-Devices






              share|improve this answer


























              • Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

                – not-a-user
                Nov 19 '15 at 10:17











              • Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

                – Matthieu
                Mar 10 '17 at 10:32
















              23














              S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools:




              smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.





              • command-line tools

              • works on Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1

              • support quite a few USB devices: Supported USB-Devices






              share|improve this answer


























              • Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

                – not-a-user
                Nov 19 '15 at 10:17











              • Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

                – Matthieu
                Mar 10 '17 at 10:32














              23












              23








              23







              S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools:




              smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.





              • command-line tools

              • works on Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1

              • support quite a few USB devices: Supported USB-Devices






              share|improve this answer















              S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools:




              smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.





              • command-line tools

              • works on Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1

              • support quite a few USB devices: Supported USB-Devices







              share|improve this answer














              share|improve this answer



              share|improve this answer








              edited Jun 13 '14 at 4:31

























              answered Oct 10 '10 at 19:48









              alexandrulalexandrul

              9251520




              9251520













              • Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

                – not-a-user
                Nov 19 '15 at 10:17











              • Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

                – Matthieu
                Mar 10 '17 at 10:32



















              • Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

                – not-a-user
                Nov 19 '15 at 10:17











              • Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

                – Matthieu
                Mar 10 '17 at 10:32

















              Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

              – not-a-user
              Nov 19 '15 at 10:17





              Thanks, that's the Unix tool I normally use. - I simply did not expect to find windows support!

              – not-a-user
              Nov 19 '15 at 10:17













              Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

              – Matthieu
              Mar 10 '17 at 10:32





              Mind that it requires administrator privileges so you'll have to run it with sudo on Linux, or runas /user:Administrator on Windows.

              – Matthieu
              Mar 10 '17 at 10:32











              12














              HD Sentinel! Best ever, bar none!






              share|improve this answer


























              • Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:18






              • 2





                They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

                – Quidam
                Dec 21 '16 at 5:22
















              12














              HD Sentinel! Best ever, bar none!






              share|improve this answer


























              • Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:18






              • 2





                They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

                – Quidam
                Dec 21 '16 at 5:22














              12












              12








              12







              HD Sentinel! Best ever, bar none!






              share|improve this answer















              HD Sentinel! Best ever, bar none!







              share|improve this answer














              share|improve this answer



              share|improve this answer








              edited Oct 28 '12 at 16:56









              Peter Mortensen

              8,376166185




              8,376166185










              answered Jul 8 '10 at 17:53









              Bjørn MathisenBjørn Mathisen

              12112




              12112













              • Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:18






              • 2





                They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

                – Quidam
                Dec 21 '16 at 5:22



















              • Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

                – gaborous
                Feb 14 '15 at 19:18






              • 2





                They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

                – Quidam
                Dec 21 '16 at 5:22

















              Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

              – gaborous
              Feb 14 '15 at 19:18





              Agree, with SmartMonTools/GSmartControl they are probably the two best SMART monitors because they don't rely on manufacturer's (biased) thresholds but rather define their own as explained here and here. "Yet another issue is that quite often the drives have bugs which prevent correct SMART usage. This is usually due to buggy firmware, or the manufacturer ignoring the standards. Luckily, smartmontools usually detects these bugs and works around them.", on GSmartControl website.

              – gaborous
              Feb 14 '15 at 19:18




              2




              2





              They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

              – Quidam
              Dec 21 '16 at 5:22





              They don't like personal statement here: Please explain rather why it's the best.

              – Quidam
              Dec 21 '16 at 5:22











              9














              PassMark DiskCheckup is free for personal use. Known issues of V3.0 (Build 1003):




              • Hardware RAID and SCSI are not supported. But dynamic disks (software RAID) are supported.

              • The Silicon Image SIL0680 Ultra-133 ATA RAID Controller has a bug which can cause a system lockup when the SMART data is accessed.. This bug exists in the current driver version, 1.0.1.7 and presumably in previous versions.

              • TEC predictions about future failure dates should be taken as a guide only and should not be considered accurate.

              • The majority of newer drives connected via USB and Firewire are supported. However, older drives may not be supported due to the protocol bridge on the hard disk not supporting SMART commands)






              share|improve this answer
























              • Simple and works.

                – Konrads
                Dec 7 '12 at 11:30
















              9














              PassMark DiskCheckup is free for personal use. Known issues of V3.0 (Build 1003):




              • Hardware RAID and SCSI are not supported. But dynamic disks (software RAID) are supported.

              • The Silicon Image SIL0680 Ultra-133 ATA RAID Controller has a bug which can cause a system lockup when the SMART data is accessed.. This bug exists in the current driver version, 1.0.1.7 and presumably in previous versions.

              • TEC predictions about future failure dates should be taken as a guide only and should not be considered accurate.

              • The majority of newer drives connected via USB and Firewire are supported. However, older drives may not be supported due to the protocol bridge on the hard disk not supporting SMART commands)






              share|improve this answer
























              • Simple and works.

                – Konrads
                Dec 7 '12 at 11:30














              9












              9








              9







              PassMark DiskCheckup is free for personal use. Known issues of V3.0 (Build 1003):




              • Hardware RAID and SCSI are not supported. But dynamic disks (software RAID) are supported.

              • The Silicon Image SIL0680 Ultra-133 ATA RAID Controller has a bug which can cause a system lockup when the SMART data is accessed.. This bug exists in the current driver version, 1.0.1.7 and presumably in previous versions.

              • TEC predictions about future failure dates should be taken as a guide only and should not be considered accurate.

              • The majority of newer drives connected via USB and Firewire are supported. However, older drives may not be supported due to the protocol bridge on the hard disk not supporting SMART commands)






              share|improve this answer













              PassMark DiskCheckup is free for personal use. Known issues of V3.0 (Build 1003):




              • Hardware RAID and SCSI are not supported. But dynamic disks (software RAID) are supported.

              • The Silicon Image SIL0680 Ultra-133 ATA RAID Controller has a bug which can cause a system lockup when the SMART data is accessed.. This bug exists in the current driver version, 1.0.1.7 and presumably in previous versions.

              • TEC predictions about future failure dates should be taken as a guide only and should not be considered accurate.

              • The majority of newer drives connected via USB and Firewire are supported. However, older drives may not be supported due to the protocol bridge on the hard disk not supporting SMART commands)







              share|improve this answer












              share|improve this answer



              share|improve this answer










              answered Oct 10 '10 at 10:01









              alexandrulalexandrul

              9251520




              9251520













              • Simple and works.

                – Konrads
                Dec 7 '12 at 11:30



















              • Simple and works.

                – Konrads
                Dec 7 '12 at 11:30

















              Simple and works.

              – Konrads
              Dec 7 '12 at 11:30





              Simple and works.

              – Konrads
              Dec 7 '12 at 11:30











              9















              CrystalDiskInfo
              is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.




              • Supports a part of external USB disks

              • Monitoring health status and temperature

              • Alert Mail

              • Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information

              • Control AAM/APM settings


              and more ...




              MIT license, also available as a portable w/o ads zip.



              CrystalDiskInfo snapshot






              share|improve this answer
























              • Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

                – Nelson
                Feb 15 '17 at 3:01






              • 1





                This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

                – Chang Qian
                Oct 31 '17 at 7:39
















              9















              CrystalDiskInfo
              is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.




              • Supports a part of external USB disks

              • Monitoring health status and temperature

              • Alert Mail

              • Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information

              • Control AAM/APM settings


              and more ...




              MIT license, also available as a portable w/o ads zip.



              CrystalDiskInfo snapshot






              share|improve this answer
























              • Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

                – Nelson
                Feb 15 '17 at 3:01






              • 1





                This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

                – Chang Qian
                Oct 31 '17 at 7:39














              9












              9








              9








              CrystalDiskInfo
              is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.




              • Supports a part of external USB disks

              • Monitoring health status and temperature

              • Alert Mail

              • Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information

              • Control AAM/APM settings


              and more ...




              MIT license, also available as a portable w/o ads zip.



              CrystalDiskInfo snapshot






              share|improve this answer














              CrystalDiskInfo
              is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.




              • Supports a part of external USB disks

              • Monitoring health status and temperature

              • Alert Mail

              • Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information

              • Control AAM/APM settings


              and more ...




              MIT license, also available as a portable w/o ads zip.



              CrystalDiskInfo snapshot







              share|improve this answer












              share|improve this answer



              share|improve this answer










              answered Aug 18 '15 at 8:35









              alexandrulalexandrul

              9251520




              9251520













              • Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

                – Nelson
                Feb 15 '17 at 3:01






              • 1





                This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

                – Chang Qian
                Oct 31 '17 at 7:39



















              • Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

                – Nelson
                Feb 15 '17 at 3:01






              • 1





                This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

                – Chang Qian
                Oct 31 '17 at 7:39

















              Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

              – Nelson
              Feb 15 '17 at 3:01





              Best option when I looked just now. The "Health Status" heuristic seems plausible.

              – Nelson
              Feb 15 '17 at 3:01




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              This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

              – Chang Qian
              Oct 31 '17 at 7:39





              This is my preference because of the small download size and wide USB controller support

              – Chang Qian
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              Now there is open source HDD Guardian, which is a graphical user interface for smartctl.



              It emerged in 2014, has a good GUI, is stable (at least I haven't noticed any bugs after working a while). Personally, I really appreciate this application.



              UPDATE(!): Looks like the project is closed






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                Now there is open source HDD Guardian, which is a graphical user interface for smartctl.



                It emerged in 2014, has a good GUI, is stable (at least I haven't noticed any bugs after working a while). Personally, I really appreciate this application.



                UPDATE(!): Looks like the project is closed






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                  Now there is open source HDD Guardian, which is a graphical user interface for smartctl.



                  It emerged in 2014, has a good GUI, is stable (at least I haven't noticed any bugs after working a while). Personally, I really appreciate this application.



                  UPDATE(!): Looks like the project is closed






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                  Now there is open source HDD Guardian, which is a graphical user interface for smartctl.



                  It emerged in 2014, has a good GUI, is stable (at least I haven't noticed any bugs after working a while). Personally, I really appreciate this application.



                  UPDATE(!): Looks like the project is closed







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                  answered Jan 14 '15 at 9:11









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                      I've been trying a few out and I've settled on the free Acronis Drive Monitor



                      http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/hard-drive-health/






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                        I've been trying a few out and I've settled on the free Acronis Drive Monitor



                        http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/hard-drive-health/






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                          I've been trying a few out and I've settled on the free Acronis Drive Monitor



                          http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/hard-drive-health/






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                          I've been trying a few out and I've settled on the free Acronis Drive Monitor



                          http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/hard-drive-health/







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                              One more option, you could have a look at your drive manufacturer's site in case they have tools that can interpret your particular drive's status. Some have extra settings, firmware updaters etc.



                              SSDs in particular tend to have these extras.






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                                One more option, you could have a look at your drive manufacturer's site in case they have tools that can interpret your particular drive's status. Some have extra settings, firmware updaters etc.



                                SSDs in particular tend to have these extras.






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                                  One more option, you could have a look at your drive manufacturer's site in case they have tools that can interpret your particular drive's status. Some have extra settings, firmware updaters etc.



                                  SSDs in particular tend to have these extras.






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                                  One more option, you could have a look at your drive manufacturer's site in case they have tools that can interpret your particular drive's status. Some have extra settings, firmware updaters etc.



                                  SSDs in particular tend to have these extras.







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                                      Powershell, WMI:



                                      gwmi Win32_DiskDrive | select Caption,Status





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                                      • gwmi: Not found

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                                      Powershell, WMI:



                                      gwmi Win32_DiskDrive | select Caption,Status





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                                      • gwmi: Not found

                                        – Chloe
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                                      Powershell, WMI:



                                      gwmi Win32_DiskDrive | select Caption,Status





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                                      Powershell, WMI:



                                      gwmi Win32_DiskDrive | select Caption,Status






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                                      answered Mar 21 '16 at 14:41









                                      Oleh NechytailoOleh Nechytailo

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                                      • gwmi: Not found

                                        – Chloe
                                        Oct 30 '17 at 16:30



















                                      • gwmi: Not found

                                        – Chloe
                                        Oct 30 '17 at 16:30

















                                      gwmi: Not found

                                      – Chloe
                                      Oct 30 '17 at 16:30





                                      gwmi: Not found

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                                      Try the free version of HDD Regenerator. It shows in real time the changes of temperature of the HD, warns if it is too hot and shows full S.M.A.R.T. report.






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                                        This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

                                        – Scott
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                                      Try the free version of HDD Regenerator. It shows in real time the changes of temperature of the HD, warns if it is too hot and shows full S.M.A.R.T. report.






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                                        This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

                                        – Scott
                                        Aug 31 '13 at 0:12














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                                      Try the free version of HDD Regenerator. It shows in real time the changes of temperature of the HD, warns if it is too hot and shows full S.M.A.R.T. report.






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                                      Try the free version of HDD Regenerator. It shows in real time the changes of temperature of the HD, warns if it is too hot and shows full S.M.A.R.T. report.







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                                      answered Aug 30 '13 at 23:15









                                      user2672400user2672400

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                                      • 3





                                        This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

                                        – Scott
                                        Aug 31 '13 at 0:12














                                      • 3





                                        This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

                                        – Scott
                                        Aug 31 '13 at 0:12








                                      3




                                      3





                                      This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

                                      – Scott
                                      Aug 31 '13 at 0:12





                                      This answer would be more useful if it included a reference (i.e., a link).

                                      – Scott
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                                      If you have a Western Digital drive, then there is a diagnostics utility to view the SMART status.



                                      https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx#WD_softwarepc




                                      This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.



                                      On the main program screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.







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                                        If you have a Western Digital drive, then there is a diagnostics utility to view the SMART status.



                                        https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx#WD_softwarepc




                                        This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.



                                        On the main program screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.







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                                          0












                                          0








                                          0







                                          If you have a Western Digital drive, then there is a diagnostics utility to view the SMART status.



                                          https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx#WD_softwarepc




                                          This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.



                                          On the main program screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.







                                          share|improve this answer













                                          If you have a Western Digital drive, then there is a diagnostics utility to view the SMART status.



                                          https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx#WD_softwarepc




                                          This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.



                                          On the main program screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.








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                                          answered Oct 31 '17 at 7:14









                                          ChloeChloe

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                                              You can get yourself Hard 5.25'' hard drive sled enclosure and it will tell you smart status as long as you enable it in BIOS.



                                              Software like WD diagnostic tools gives you same SMART status as hard drive bays give you, enclosures just display SMART status using color coded lights






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                                                You can get yourself Hard 5.25'' hard drive sled enclosure and it will tell you smart status as long as you enable it in BIOS.



                                                Software like WD diagnostic tools gives you same SMART status as hard drive bays give you, enclosures just display SMART status using color coded lights






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                                                  You can get yourself Hard 5.25'' hard drive sled enclosure and it will tell you smart status as long as you enable it in BIOS.



                                                  Software like WD diagnostic tools gives you same SMART status as hard drive bays give you, enclosures just display SMART status using color coded lights






                                                  share|improve this answer













                                                  You can get yourself Hard 5.25'' hard drive sled enclosure and it will tell you smart status as long as you enable it in BIOS.



                                                  Software like WD diagnostic tools gives you same SMART status as hard drive bays give you, enclosures just display SMART status using color coded lights







                                                  share|improve this answer












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                                                  answered Jan 17 at 14:46









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                                                      If you have an Intel drive, then you can use Intel® SSD Toolbox. On the updside, you don't need third party software or drivers (assuming you trust Intel).



                                                      Unfortunately, it appears the pages for the toolbox and the search functionality, are broken so you can't find it by searching Intel's site either. You can't even search for it by item number 18455 or 80097.






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                                                        If you have an Intel drive, then you can use Intel® SSD Toolbox. On the updside, you don't need third party software or drivers (assuming you trust Intel).



                                                        Unfortunately, it appears the pages for the toolbox and the search functionality, are broken so you can't find it by searching Intel's site either. You can't even search for it by item number 18455 or 80097.






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                                                          -1








                                                          -1







                                                          If you have an Intel drive, then you can use Intel® SSD Toolbox. On the updside, you don't need third party software or drivers (assuming you trust Intel).



                                                          Unfortunately, it appears the pages for the toolbox and the search functionality, are broken so you can't find it by searching Intel's site either. You can't even search for it by item number 18455 or 80097.






                                                          share|improve this answer















                                                          If you have an Intel drive, then you can use Intel® SSD Toolbox. On the updside, you don't need third party software or drivers (assuming you trust Intel).



                                                          Unfortunately, it appears the pages for the toolbox and the search functionality, are broken so you can't find it by searching Intel's site either. You can't even search for it by item number 18455 or 80097.







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