Speedfan has a utility to analyse and display a result of SMART statistics on health by comparing it to manufacturer submitted optimum levels. This gives you a fairly accurate result on how healthy your drives are and I think it's pretty useful!
You are also given a 3dmark like link to reference it if need be. Just wondered how many people out there are running drives that are unfit according to SMART analysis!
Mine:
- Seagate 80GB SATA-NCQ (OS drive)
- Maxtor DMX10 SATA-NCQ 200GB ("My Documents" folder migrated here)
This is my newest drive and has been on 24/7 so I guess the power on hours count is to be expected
Since going SATA I've never had any problems with harddrives, I had WD, Seagate and Maxtor drives that died or failed on arrival before but they were all PATA, glad I switched really but the only PATA drive that remained fast and stable for me for right until i moved to sata was the trusty Maxtor Plus 9 8mb drive...very nice drive!
You are also given a 3dmark like link to reference it if need be. Just wondered how many people out there are running drives that are unfit according to SMART analysis!
Mine:
- Seagate 80GB SATA-NCQ (OS drive)
- Maxtor DMX10 SATA-NCQ 200GB ("My Documents" folder migrated here)
This is my newest drive and has been on 24/7 so I guess the power on hours count is to be expected
Since going SATA I've never had any problems with harddrives, I had WD, Seagate and Maxtor drives that died or failed on arrival before but they were all PATA, glad I switched really but the only PATA drive that remained fast and stable for me for right until i moved to sata was the trusty Maxtor Plus 9 8mb drive...very nice drive!
