HD Tune v2 55 Review Free Hard Drive Testing Tool
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You may need to replace the hard drive if it fails any of your tests.
HD Tune v2.55 Review
A Free Hard Drive Testing Tool
By Tim Fisher Tim Fisher Senior Vice President & Group General Manager, Tech & Sustainability Emporia State University Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on October 4, 2022 Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Backup & Utilities File Types Apps Windows MS Office Linux Google Drive Backup & Utilities Design Cryptocurrency HD Tune is a hard drive testing program for Windows that can check the general health of a hard drive, run a scan for errors, and perform a benchmark read test. The program is easy to use, supports internal and external storage devices, and lets you copy out all the information it finds. Download HD Tune What We Like Easy to use Can copy any information to the clipboard Some features are customizable Can save any information as a screenshot image Supports all types of hard drives What We Don't Like Free for personal use only Unable to save information directly to a file This review is of HD Tune version 2.55, released on February 12, 2008.More About HD Tune
HD Tune is a Windows-based hard driver tester — it works for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and 2000, officially, but we had no trouble using it in Windows 10 and Windows 8. HD Tune works with any internal or external hard drive, SSD, or memory card. You can change the device you're using from the drop-down menu at the top of the screen. The four tabs of the program are Benchmark, Info, Health, and Error Scan. While the benchmark test is run in the first tab, the Info page is just for displaying the drive's supported features, serial number, capacity, and other basic information. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes are shown in the Health tab while the error scan is performed in the last tab. Benchmark settings can be modified from the Options page to change the speed of the test and the block size used to read data from the drive. When a test is launched, you can see the minimum, maximum, and average transfer rate as well as the access time, burst rate, and CPU usage used during the benchmark. HD Tune also displays the temperature of the drive in question, both at the top of the screen and in the notification area of the Windows taskbar. You can define a specific number for a "critical temperature" from the Options so the temperature will display in a different color to easily understand when the drive is overheating.You may need to replace the hard drive if it fails any of your tests.