Installer / FormatĬrystalDiskInfo Portable is packaged in a Installer so it will automatically detect an existing installation when your drive is plugged in. information, control AAM/APM settings and more. It supports a part of external USB disks, monitoring health status and temperature, graph of S.M.A.R.T. FeaturesĬrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T. Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the Platform. And it's open source and completely free. It's packaged in Format so it can easily integrate with the Platform. It also tells you how many times the hard disk has been turned on and how many hours it's been on for. CrystalDiskInfo monitors HDD/SSD health status and temperature, and does all the usual monitoring/graphing of S.M.A.R.T. Which one to trust, WD software or those other application, is a different story.CrystalDiskInfo Portable 7.5.0 has been released.
You simply click a button and it tells you that the drive is "healthy" without showing you any details, whereas I have had situations where a certain drive marked "healthy" by 'WD Drive Utilities' was reported to be 'faulty' by all other four software I have mentioned above.
I have " WD Drive Utilities" installed and I don't find it helpful and reliable at all. I can see complete S.M.A.R.T data for all of them in all of the aforementioned programs.Īnd I am using HD Tune Pro, not the free version and all's still the same. I have three other portable 2.5" drives two of them WD, one Seagate. As long as I see "Passed" in the Seagate or WD diagnostic test that's good enough for me. The actual SMART data is unfathomable to most users anyhow (including me). I no longer use third-party drive diagnostics, I only test with the drive manufacturer's software to check the drive's health ocassionally.
I distinctly remember having the same SMART Data issue myself a couple of years ago - a support from the developer (EFD Software) confirmed it was because of the limitations of the USB interface, the SMART Data feature is very limited. " Note: due to hardware limitations some drives may not support all functions".įurthermore, for health status & temp of external drives you need to use HD Tune Pro, not the free HD Tune. It's because of the USB interface - most drive diagnostic utilities, whilst supporting external hard drives generally (eg health status) are unable to display complete SMART data unless the drive is connected to a SATA port (ie internal drives).įor example, on the HD Tune website it states:
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