Seeking recommendation to reliable disk health software.

[ypaul123]

Hiya folk,

I kindly request a recommendation to a hdd helath examiner software that would detect the health and functionality of seagate and WD drives (of course, i need it to be reliable and wont mess up existing data on the drives)

thanks in advance,

Paul.

[jaclaz]

There is no such thing as a "reliable" program simply because there is no "reliable" way to diagnose health, or to be more exact predict life of a drive.

There are S.M.A.R.T. info readers, that's all.

Specific manufacturer's diagnostics tend to be reliable to diagnose existing problems, but won't as well predict ANYTHING reliably.

Check the (now getting oldish) famous Google report on their drives:

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

jaclaz

Edited January 13, 2010 by jaclaz