Best program for forecasting crash

[Buck]

I've used the Drive Fitness Test that's made for my Hitachi hard drive
that uses S.M.A.R.T, and I've also used Spinrite to try to fix sector
problems. Can anyone tell me if these are the best programs to tell
you if your drive might be about to crash, or are there better
programs for this?

 

[Rod Speed]

I've used the Drive Fitness Test that's made for my Hitachi
hard drive that uses S.M.A.R.T, and I've also used Spinrite
to try to fix sector problems. Can anyone tell me if these are
the best programs to tell you if your drive might be about to
crash, or are there better programs for this?

I prefer Everest myself, lets you look at the SMART data.

Spinrite is completely useless.

 

[Michael Cecil]

I've used the Drive Fitness Test that's made for my Hitachi hard drive
that uses S.M.A.R.T, and I've also used Spinrite to try to fix sector
problems. Can anyone tell me if these are the best programs to tell
you if your drive might be about to crash, or are there better
programs for this?

There are lots of programs to report the SMART status. Everest from
Lavalys.com is a free one that works from within Windows.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I've used the Drive Fitness Test that's made for my Hitachi hard drive
that uses S.M.A.R.T, and I've also used Spinrite to try to fix sector
problems. Can anyone tell me if these are the best programs to tell
you if your drive might be about to crash, or are there better
programs for this?

There is no program for this. There are just programms that will
give you data and the smart data is actually pretty much what you
can get. The prediction is your best guess, based on that data.

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

There is no program for this.

Oh yes there is.

There are just programs that will give you data and the smart data
is actually pretty much what you can get.

And some programs observe the progression of that data to predict
if/when the drive is going to fail.

 

[Buck]

And some programs observe the progression of that data to predict
if/when the drive is going to fail.

What are those programs?

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

What are those programs?

If I could remember the specific term that they use for the predicted date
of failure I could search for it in Google but it escapes me for the moment.

But it looks like HDD Health might be a good candidate.