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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: April 10, 2007
- Total Downloads: 73,563
- Downloads last week: 107
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 33 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This freeware application is supposed to monitor your hard drive health, but it didn't give us the right readings.
As soon as HDDlife's installation begins, you're offered the choice to try a trial version of HDDlife Pro instead. If you stay with the free program, the program's plain interface displays hard drive temperature, health status, and performance ratings, but details are disabled unless you upgrade.
The main flaw with HDDlife was in the incorrect health status reading of our test hard drive. The program showed a critical rating, with a prompt to immediately back up the computer to prevent data loss. This diagnosis wasn't confirmed, however, when we checked with other tools.
Users beware: HDDlife wasn't a very reliable tool for monitoring hard drive health, and its primary purpose seems to be to get you to upgrade to a paid version.
Publisher's description
From BinarySense :Worried about a hard drive failure? HDDLife is a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection, and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.
Version 2.9.110 now works in Windows Vista.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.9.110 now works in Windows Vista.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 33 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
"Great Software!!! - Proactively check the health of your HDD"
Pros: - Reliable reads the SMART attributes of the HDD and analyze them, in order to give you an accurate status of the health and performance of your HDD. Also it check the temperature and you could customize the parameters for critical and urgent temperature checks.
- if you right click the system tray icon, and left click "check drives now" the HDDlife will query the HDD and display up to date health, performance and temperature information
All that information is analysed and HDD reports if the drive is OK or if it's advisable to make a backup and change the HDD.
Cons: Much to ask: that the PRO functionality will be also in the free version (I understand that Binary sense needs to eat =), but would be nice to have the same functionality in the free version
The freeware version so far stayed on the 2.9.110 version, while the pro is already on the 3 version
There is no "notebook" free version, and would be nice to have that !.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
Pros: It display hard drive information in a simple screen.
Cons: Super nagging to upgrade; plays loud siren noice. Avoid if you are willing to buy. The "free" is deceptive.
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0 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
Pros: Good
Cons: Good
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
Pros: small and friendly
Cons: not have graphic, diagram of monitoring, not custom tray message icon
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
"Very little useful data, don't waste your time"
Pros: The install went fine and it did set a "restore point" (which I need later). It gave me the drive temps.
Cons: Would not uninstall properly. Had to access the products web page. Provided NO useful data. Data it did provide was erroneous or undefined.
Summary: This was more of a trial version to see the user interface than it was usable freeware. There was nothing of value to this version other than providing the drive temps and that is easily had elsewhere.
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