Diagnose Hard Drive Problems With HDDScan

Have you been hearing an ominous clicking sound coming from inside your computer? That sound could be one of your hard drives on its way to failure…or something else entirely. If you want to know for sure, a utility called HDDScan can help. This free app will scan your internal or external drives for bad blocks, test write/read/erase capabilities, read and analyze S.M.A.R.T. parameters and run S.M.A.R.T. tests, and even monitor the temperatures of the drives themselves. When complete, the reports produced can either be printed or saved for future reference. HDDScan is definitely an app worth adding to your toolkit.

(Thanks AppScout!)