Hard Drive Inspector Alternatives

Hard Drive Inspector is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Hard Drive Inspector for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Hard Drive Inspector alternative is CrystalDiskInfo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hard Drive Inspector are GSmartControl, Hard Disk Sentinel, smartmontools and HDDScan.

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  1. SMARTHDD icon
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    A SMARTHDD intended for troubleshooting and operation optimization of HDD and SSD storages. Allows adjusting characteristics of HDD and SSD by modifying the positioning speed of magnetic heads (AAM) and fine-tuning power consumption (APM).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. SMARTReporter icon
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    SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the built-in S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drives as well as performing other checks for "I/O errors" or R.A.I.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. HDDExpert icon
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    HDDExpert gives you a crystal-clear vision of your Hard Drive (HDD or SSD) health and performance and translates S.M.A.R.T. attributes into readable indication.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Active SMART - is hard-drive deagnostic and file usage information tool. It uses the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks to timely detect and anticipate any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6.  Like

    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 is it down the road.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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