Do you check your Hard Disks Health ? if so - what with

[Pinkeyes]

Hi Guys

Lost two "data" disks now over the last couple of years.

First time, I luckily noticed the yellow warning symbol in computer management and managed to move the data.

This last time, parts of the drive disintegrated, and although I managed to move most of it, I lost 70GB of music, which will take a long time to get back.

While I appreciate backups are the best way forward, does anyone know of any good Hard disk health checkers I could run say weekly to hopefully let me know ASAP if there is a problem.

Your help is appreciated.

 

[Pinkeyes]

The quicker you find your problem the easier it is to get data copied of the drive to a new one.

Well thats exactly my thinking. Although I plan to use this along side a backup plan.

The drive is a Maxtor, (which now comes under Seagate)

What the web version of their tool like ? and where can I find it ?

Also looking at buying Diskeeper too.

 

[Pinkeyes]

Speedfan can read S.M.A.R.T. & perform an in depth analysis...

Thank you - proved to be very useful.

I found the data drive was running at 55 C idle, and 65 C under load.
I have been cooking my disks !

Time to find myself a big airy server case I think.