Top 15 Most Popular Hard Disk Softwares | Apr 2024

Here are the top 15 most popular hard disk softwares as derived from our TpSort Score which is a continually popular score, it denotes an estimated popularity of a software.

1. IOzone

IOzone IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor’s computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations:Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read,......

2. Vdbench

Vdbench Vdbench is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage on Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, OS/X and HP/UX.......

3. gpart

gpart Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a file or device.......

4. SequoiaView

SequoiaView Create a visual representation of the amount of space each file is taking on your hard drive. It creates a "squarified treemap" that makes it easy to see where all your space is going.You can also conduct basic file operations like deleting unnecessary files you've found directly from within the......

5. Xinorbis

Xinorbis Xinorbis is a completely FREE, powerful Windows-based data storage analyser for single users or network administrators. Provides an instant visual display of the contents of a hard disk, single or multiple directories. Output reports to XML, CSV, HTML or plain ASCII. Features: analyse a single drive, folder or merge......

6. diskscan

diskscan Diskscan is intended to provide the information needed to decide if a disk is good or not, be it an HDD or an SSD it is likely to be holding important data and if you have a suspicion that it is failing it is also important to know how bad......

7. DiskReport

DiskReport DiskReport is an online disk space usage tool.You can quickly generate an online disk report for all your disks. The report contains pie charts of total size and total file counts for each folder.With periodic scheduling, differential graphs are available, to help you find what has grown since previous report.Cleaning......

8. DiskExplorer

DiskExplorer This is also a disk editor. It comes with a very clean and usable UI and offers comprehensive information about NTFS. You can use it to view and edit NTFS file system structures. It dissects all necessary information for you. Its a good tool to learn something about NTFS.......

9. Drive Fitness Test

Drive Fitness Test Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives. The DFT analyze function performs read tests without overwriting data.......

10. CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T.It shows the health status much more clearly than similar tools.The "Function / Graph" is especially interesting for the "Reallocated Sectors Count".If it increases over time or is very high already, the hard drive may need to be replaced. More than 30......

11. smartmontools

smartmontools The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.......

12. DriveDx

DriveDx DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, but also analyzes the changes of all drive health indicators that are closely related to HDD or SSD failures (like the pending bad sectors, reallocated bad sectors,......

13. Bart's Stuff Test

Bart's Stuff Test Bst5 (Bart's Stuff Test v5) is a small win32 application for long term heavy stress testing storage devices. Bst5 supports testing at file and device level.File level support enables you to test any local or remote volume by file access. This makes it possible to test almost any storage device.......

14. UtilStudio Disk Space Finder

UtilStudio Disk Space Finder UtilStudio Disk Space Finder is a simple tool that you can use to find the files that occupy the most space on your computer. The application can scan any folder and display the file size, while also enabling you to preview the selected files. You can use it to identify......

15. HDD Low Level Format Tool

HDD Low Level Format Tool This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281 474 976 710 655 bytes. Will work with USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures. Low-level formatting of Flash Cards is supported too. Low......