Is there Any methord to check hard disk life ?

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Anybody knows how to check hard disk life........ any freeware software.......

you can at most check for bad sectors and if there is any, apply for RMA. there is no software that can give you any accurate measure of HDD life left.

Symptoms like bad sectors, frequent file corruption, detection failures, noises are the main inductors. No way to determine its working life.

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ok Thanks.

Use this HD Tune website..

Use HD Tune and SMART.

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HD Tune does the job , exactly what i was looking for. Thanks :mrgreen:

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I use Hard Disk Sentinel.

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rajnusker said:
I use Hard Disk Sentinel.

Its good but not free.

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crystaldisk info is free & has more features than HD Tune free version.

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whitestar_999 said:
crystaldisk info is free & has more features than HD Tune free version.

Thanks.

Sorry for bumping into an old thread. I have 3-4 HDD's with me and off late I find some clicking sound coming from the HDD. I wanted to check if all my HDDs are fine. Can any of these software mentioned here help me find out about the life of HDD.

rajnusker said:
I use Hard Disk Sentinel.

+1.. .

Reloaded said:
Its good but not free.

There's an official key which lies in the hdsentinel itself. Once they've given a key as a giveaway for certain region. But sadly, the key works for all regions TILL and they've almost forgot about that.

ajayritik said:
Sorry for bumping into an old thread. I have 3-4 HDD's with me and off late I find some clicking sound coming from the HDD. I wanted to check if all my HDDs are fine. Can any of these software mentioned here help me find out about the life of HDD.

HD sentinel will show the remaining (approximate) life span for a HDD in days, with bad sectors (if any) like this..

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Guys is this something to worry about

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^already DANGER signal given.

I also tested my HDD with crystal disk but it is not showing Rotation rate

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^^rotation rate of WD green series is not fixed but variable but average value can be safely assumed as 5400rpm.

ajayritik said:
Guys is this something to worry about

back up your important data first. also what is the value for "current pending sector count"? you need to rma this drive at as soon as possible. it can fail any time.

Zangetsu said:
I also tested my HDD with crystal disk but it is not showing Rotation rate

mine does not show buffer size and NV cache size. nothing to worry about.

I guess ajay has Samsung HDD

whitestar_999 said:
^^rotation rate of WD green series is not fixed but variable but average value can be safely assumed as 5400rpm.

i m using WD Blue

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maybe some design parameter which prevent crystaldisk from reading this value from hdd.S.M.A.R.T. values are the ones which matter anyway.

Zangetsu said:
I guess ajay has Samsung HDD

i m using WD Blue

Don't worry. Its normal it doesn't show some information on my Drives as well. I have WD Black and Green Drives.

Same case with me, my WD 1TB Caviar Blue does not show any rotation rate under CrystalDisk Info.

But everything is NORMAL till now...

rijinpk1 said:
back up your important data first. also what is the value for "current pending sector count"? you need to rma this drive at as soon as possible. it can fail any time.

mine does not show buffer size and NV cache size. nothing to worry about.

How do I check the current pending sector count?

^ You can check in Crystaldiskinfo itself.
Check on the ID C5.

*www.technibble.com/articlecontent/2010/02/crystaldiskinfo.gif