I’m looking for tools that can monitor the health of my large HDD (8TB) and also provide optimization features. Are there any reliable programs that combine diagnostics, performance tweaks, and preventive maintenance? Recommendations or insights on what’s worked well for others would be greatly appreciated!
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To monitor the HDD health, I am using CrystalDiskInfo to quickly know the overall drive health (Good/Caution/Bad) and detailed S.M.A.R.T. attributes, real-time disk temperature and so on.
Besides, you may use other disk programs to manage internal and external hard drives, such as this one to test disk speed, fully or incrementally clone disks or partitions, analyze and clean up disk space, securely erase data, resize partition, recover lost partition etc.
There are other disk programs which specialize in data backup, disk clone, data encryption that you may need.
