A front-end to the smartctl tool included with Windows.
HDD Guardian is an application which provides a front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.A.R.T.
The application checks S.M.A.R.T attributes every 4 hours to ensure your hard drive is healthy. It is also able to enable and disable certain settings of your hard drive, settings which are normally only available to advanced users with knowledge of how to use the smartctl tool.
Information provided by HDD Guardian includes overheating, possible failure, data loss and more.
Other features included with this program are the options to run manual tests, run tests on connected external hard drives and view detailed information about connected hard drives.
HDD Guardian also includes detailed error logging, a nice feature to have when searching for any errors you run into.
Features of HDD Guardian
- Alerts: Notifications about potential hard drive issues.
- Automatic update: Get the latest versions of HDD Guardian.
- Benchmark: Evaluate hard drive performance.
- Detailed report: Comprehensive report of hard drive's health.
- Disk Cloning: Backup hard drive data to a secure destination.
- Free disk space manager: Defragment, check and delete files.
- Internationalization: Support for multiple languages.
- Logging: Keeps records of SMART attributes and activities.
- Overheating protection: Automatically powers off hard drive to avoid overheating.
- SMART monitoring: Advanced analysis of hard drive's health.
- Secure erase: Delete files securely with overwrite option.
- Temperature monitoring: Displays hard drive temperature in real-time.
- Tray icon: Receive notifications and access HDD Guardian quickly.
Compatibility and License
HDD Guardian is free software made available under the Mozilla Public Licence for the Windows operating system from drive utilities. With this type of license, users are permitted to freely download, modify and distribute it without any real restrictions.
What version of Windows can HDD Guardian run on?
HDD Guardian can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
Filed under:
- HDD Guardian Download
- Free Drive Utilities
- Open source and GPL software
- HDD Information Software