Top 15 HDD Guardian Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

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.

HDD Guardian requires .NET Framework 4.0 and is actually tested on Windows XP SP3 32 bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

HDD Guardian alert in case of imminent failure, temperature threshold or vital parameter change.

1. 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.......

2. 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.......

3. HD Tune

HD Tune HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions:-Benchmark: measures the performance,-Info: shows detailed information,-Health: checks the health status by using SMART,-Error Scan: scans the surface for errors,-Temperature display,HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.......

4. HDDLife

HDDLife Modern hard drives are much more reliable than the disks of yesterday. However, they still are extremely complex electronic devices with moving parts that are subject to amortization. The high density of data storage provided by the modern disks allows for greater storage capacities and higher access speeds. However, with......

5. Acronis Drive Monitor

Acronis Drive Monitor Free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives. Early warning to save your dataAcronis Drive Monitor can help predict when a hard drive is about to fail, giving you the chance to backup your data before disaster strikes. When Acronis Drive Monitor......

6. 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......

7. 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,......

8. 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......

9. Parkdale

Parkdale Get the read and write speed from your harddisks, cdrom devices and network servers in Kilobyte, Megabyte or even Gigabyte per Second. There are three different modes, from easy to advanded.......

10. MHDD

MHDD MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform......

11. SSD-Z

SSD-Z Using a database, it will show information about your SSD, such as the controller, processing tech, NAND type etc.Other useful information related to disk devices are also shown, such as S.M.A.R.T. status and partition layout.Features:- Details of the controller and processing tech of NAND chips (for known devices).- Verify that......

12. Compact Tray Meter

Compact Tray Meter This compact utility displays real-time CPU, RAM and disk drives usage meters right on the taskbar notification area, or next to the system clock, that is always visible:>> Special features:-Real-time reporting of the CPU activity.-Real-time reporting on the system RAM usage.-Real-time reporting of the disk drives activity.-Color coding of the......

13. Hard Drive Inspector

Hard Drive Inspector Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. In many cases it is able to warn the user about forthcoming disk failure in advance, thus preventing information loss.......

14. Pc-Check

Pc-Check Pc-Check® is your ready-to-use-now diagnostic software. With its self-booting start-up, you don’t have to worry about which operating system is installed. Pc-Check only tests the hardware you want it to. No gimmicks, no files touched, no brand names considered — just reliable hardware test results.Test Coverage and MaintenanceOperations that are......

15. 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.......