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PC Test Kit All Hardware Benchmarks CPU Benchmarks Video Card Benchmarks Hard Drive Benchmarks RAM Benchmarks PC Systems Benchmarks Android Benchmarks iOS / iPhone Benchmarks Services Store Support Forums About Us Company Contact smart hard drive test Us The Press Room Home » Software » DiskCheckup PassMark DiskCheckup ™ Download smart monitoring tools now! (1.59 MB) Add to cart Versions: V3.4 (Build 1002) Latest release date: 15 Jun 2016 Price: Free for hard drive test software personal use. Company license is US$19.00 per license. Platforms: Windows XP-SP3, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, Server 2012, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. Requirements: 16 MB RAM, 2 MB of hard drive performance test disk space. Related software SysInfo DLL SDK 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
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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 has the ability to detect and set the sizes of the Host Protected Area (HPA) and Device Configuration Overlay (DCO). The HPA/DCO
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(Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology; often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)[1] that detects and reports on various indicators of drive reliability, with the intent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. of enabling the anticipation of hardware failures. When S.M.A.R.T. data indicates a possible imminent drive failure, software running on the host system may notify the user so stored data can be copied to another storage device, preventing data loss, and the failing drive can be replaced. Contents 1 Background 2 History and predecessors 3 Provided information 4 Standards and implementation 4.1 Lack of common interpretation 4.2 Visibility to host systems 5 hard drive Access 6 ATA S.M.A.R.T. attributes 6.1 Known ATA S.M.A.R.T. attributes 6.2 Threshold Exceeds Condition 7 Self-tests 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links Background[edit] Hard disk failures fall into one of two basic classes: Predictable failures, resulting from slow processes such as mechanical wear and gradual degradation of storage surfaces. Monitoring can determine when such failures are becoming more likely. Unpredictable failures, happening without warning and ranging from hard drive test electronic components becoming defective to a sudden mechanical failure (which may be related to improper handling). Mechanical failures account for about 60% of all drive failures.[2] While the eventual failure may be catastrophic, most mechanical failures result from gradual wear and there are usually certain indications that failure is imminent. These may include increased heat output, increased noise level, problems with reading and writing of data, or an increase in the number of damaged disk sectors. A field study at Google [3] covering over 100,000 consumer-grade drives from December 2005 to August 2006 found correlations between certain SMART information and actual failure rates. In the 60 days following the first uncorrectable error on a drive (SMART attribute 0xC6 or 198) detected as a result of an offline scan, the drive was, on average, 39 times more likely to fail than a similar drive for which no such error occurred. First errors in reallocations, offline reallocations (SMART attributes 0xC4 and 0x05 or 196 and 5) and probational counts (SMART attribute 0xC5 or 197) were also strongly correlated to higher probabilities of failure. Conversely, little correlation was found for increased temperature and no correlation for usage level. However, the research showed that a large proportion (56%) of the failed drives failed without recording any count in