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License:
Free
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Downloads:
71,487
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
April 10, 2007
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Publisher's description of HDDlife
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.
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Editor's review of HDDlife
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- Version reviewed: HDDlife 2.9.110
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.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 31 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 1 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 3 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
Pros: Good
Cons: Good
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
"CNET Staff review was 100% correct"
Pros: Nothing much, just the control panel looked interesting, but was a mistake installing it.
Cons: This product reports false positive. I reports my brand new SATA drive with a health state with 0%.
Summary: This product reports false positive. I reports my brand new SATA drive with a health state with 0%. I brought this drive off the hard drive's manufacture, and a freshly installed windows vista. It first reported a drive state of 93%. After 15 days a... read more >>
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Version: HDDlife 2.9.110
"Works Well, but no support whatsoever"
Pros: One of the best SMART applications available. Very customizable. Excellent graphical user interface. Can even email alerts to you (such as high temperature or HD error warnings).
Cons: The company provides no support - none whatsoever. Not even to paying customers. They never responded to multiple requests and I'm a registered customer.
Summary: I use HDLife and I really like it. But if you have problems, you're on your own.
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