We will not go into defragmentation utilities, as we already featured the best tools for this, and today we will be taking a look at hard drive managers, benchmarking tools, health analyzers and repair tools. These utilities will help you monitor your drives on a software level and they will let you know when something is wrong.
Monitoring and Benchmark
Also, these utilities will give you information on the drive’s temperature, read and write speeds and in some cases (if you have a S.M.A.R.T. enabled drive and motherboard) it will provide other information on the drive’s health. Here is a list of some utilities that will allow you to monitor your hard drive:
- CrystalDiskInfo
- DiskCheckup
- HD Tune
- HDDScan
- Active@ Hard Disk Monitor
- ActiveSMART
Also, a good tool that you can use is the chkdsk utility implemented in the Windows operating system. How to use the utility was explained in our hard drive health article.
Space and Partition Managers
Also, some of these apps will allow you to manage the partitions of your hard drive. They allow you to create or delete partitions, as well as modify existing ones. There is a dedicated tool for managing partition integrated in the Windows operating system, it is called DISKPART and it can be accessed via the command prompt, similar to the way we used it to create a bootable USB drive for downgrading Windows. - SpaceSniffer
- WinDirStat
- TreeSize Free
- DiskSavvy
- GetFolderSize
- Free Disk Usage Analyzer
- Partition Magic
- Parted Magic
- GParted Live
- Partition Logic
- EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition
- Paragon Partition Manager
- MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition
Disk Eraser and Disk Regenerator
- Active@ Kill Disk – Hard Drive Eraser
- Eraser
- ShredIt – File Shredder
- Disk Wipe
- Darik’s Boot And Nuke
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