CrystalDiskInfo is the software that monitors and evaluates hard drive status accurately. If you suspect your hard drive is getting corrupted, download CrystalDiskInfo and use it to test your hard drive.
Updated in new release CrystalDiskInfo 7.5.1
- Fixed sound issues on the installation
- Edit menu
- Integrate Visual C ++ 2017 Update 5
Computer hard drives, whether new or old, need to know how it works in order to avoid the risks that might be expected, especially the disk that contains important data. And CrystalDiskInfo hard drive test software will give you complete peace of mind when always know your computer hard drive is in any state.
Hard drive status monitor histogram on CrystalDiskInfo
User attention: the installation is often recommended to install additional software unnecessary.
System Requirements:
- Users need to log into the administrator account to use this software.
- Need to have .NET Framework 2.0 or higher to use the Mail Alert feature.
How to use CrystalDiskInfo
Using CrystalDiskInfo, you do not have to install, after downloading the program you use WinRAR or WinZip to extract the file DiskInfo.exe. When you need to use, double-click DiskInfo.exe to view the drive information.
CrystalDiskInfo provides quite a bit of information, here are some important information:
- The status of "health" ( Health Status ): When running, your drive will be notified one of four states. Specifically as follows: Good (blue background): the drive is good, Caution(yellow background): Disc problem, Bad (red background): Can the reader, motor wear, surface scratched discs, or Multiple damaged words, Gray (gray background): Unspecified "disease".
- Temperature ( Temperature ): if less than 49 degrees Celsius is normal; From 50 to 55 degrees C, we should find ways to overcome such as adding cooling fans inside the case ...; If the hard disk temperature is above 55 degrees Celsius, there is a problem, maybe some part of the disk is subjected to extreme friction, and the disk may die at any time.
- Firmware : Displays the version of the firmware that is "pressed" on the hard drive, which will be activated when there is power to the hard drive, which occurs before booting. operating.
- Buffer Size : Shows the size of the hard drive's buffer space. The task of this memory area is to save the most recently accessed data from the hard drive. When a program needs to retrieve data from a drive, it first checks in the buffer pool whether the data it needs is available. This mechanism increases the power and speed of the system.
- Information about SMART - Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a technique for self-monitoring, analyzing and reporting of hard disk problems. When a failure is detected, it can cause the hard drive to stop working. This will notify the user. Depending on the manufacturer of the drive, information about SMART technology will be more or less and different. Typically, about 35 SMART characteristics are provided, which helps to detect about 60% of the disk errors.
