Victoria Alternatives

CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T. It shows the health status much more clearly than similar tools. The "Function / Graph" is especially interesting for the "Reallocated Sectors Count". If it increases over time or is very high already, the hard drive may need to be replaced. More than 30 languages.

Features:

• Selective Wipe
• Multiple languages
• Portable
• Terabytes Written (TBW) info
• Hardware Monitoring
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

HD Tune

HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions: -Benchmark: measures the performance, -Info: shows detailed information, -Health: checks the health status by using SMART, -Error Scan: scans the surface for errors, -Temperature display, HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.

Features:

• Linear read benchmark per drive offset
• Read latency benchmark per drive offset
• Hardware Monitoring
• Quick/slow surface scan
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
• Temperature Monitoring

Hard Disk Sentinel

SSD and HDD health monitoring and analysis utility for diagnosing and repairing hard drive issues.

Features:

• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
• Temperature Monitoring

HDD Regenerator

The HDD Regenerator can repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data. As a result, previously unreadable and inaccessible information is restored. Detect physical bad sectors on a hard disk drive surface. Repair physical bad sectors (magnetic errors) on a hard disk surface. The product ignores file system, scans disk at physical level. It can be used with FAT, NTFS or any other file system, and also with unformatted or unpartitioned disks.

SpinRite

SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces.

Features:

• Portable
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

HDDScan

HDDScan is a freeware utility for storage devices diagnostics (HDD, RAID, Flash). The program can scan storage device for bad blocks, show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc. .

Features:

• Hardware Monitoring
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
• Temperature Monitoring

DriveDx

DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, but also analyzes the changes of all drive health indicators that are closely related to HDD or SSD failures (like the pending bad sectors, reallocated bad sectors, uncorrectable bad sectors, SSD wear out / endurance, and more) and alerts the user immediately if anything goes wrong.

Features:

• Hardware Monitoring
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

HDAT2

HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices. HDAT2 program has 2 levels: Drive level testing - main function is testing and repair (to regenerate) bad sectors for detected devices - you get much information about detected devices File level testing - read/find/check items (MBR, boot, directories, etc.) of file system FAT12/16/32 - check/remove (regenerates) bad sectors records, flags in FAT table

Features:

• Hardware Monitoring
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

HDD Low Level Format Tool

HDD Low Level Format Tool is a utility for low-level hard disk drive formatting. - Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, SAS, USB, FIREWIRE. - Big drives (LBA-48) are supported. - Supported Manufacturers: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Western Digital, and almost any other not listed here. - The program also supports low-level formatting of FLASH cards (SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash) using a card-reader.

SeaTools

SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer. The installation needs dot.NET 4 as a precondition. If dot.NET 4 is not installed, it must be installed before. Then in a further step the new dot.NET 4-installation must be updated, before you can install SeaTools. It includes several tests that will examine the physical media on your Seagate or Maxtor disk drive and any other non-Seagate disk drive.