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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: April 18, 2006
- Total Downloads: 69,099
- Downloads last week: 167
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- Average user rating: stars out of 33 votes
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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 2.8.98 features the ability to resize the main window (and the program remembers its size) - so you can see info about free space on all drives at once. The warning window with a 15 sec delay before powering off the computer in case of overheating/bad health.
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User reviews of HDDlife 2.8.98
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 33 votes
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.8.98
"System locks up, waiting for response from company"
Pros: From what I've heard, it's a great little program and am really wanting to try it out.
Cons: After install, just as program starts up, it locks up the computer. I have tried a couple different version of HDDLife and they do the same. May have problems with my PCI/IDE card...not sure
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.8.98
"Good, except it calls back home every few minutes"
Pros: Good.
Cons: For the life of me I don't know why it needs to connect to Internet every few minutes.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.8.98
"Unreliable data, horrible customer service"
Pros: Supposed to report hard drive temperature, "work life" (the cummulative time the hard drive has been running since it was first produced), drive health, and drive performance
Cons: After installing from download.com, I was told my primary HDD (a Maxtor) was at 0% health, that I needed to back up the drive and shut down immediately. It also reported that the "work life" had only been 24 days, which was far from true given that the drive had been in my computer for 4 years!
It sounded fishy, so I ran Maxtor's own diagnostic software, which said my drive was fine. I even spoke with their CS dept., who confirmed my drive was fine.
I then update to the latest version (v. 2.8.105), which said the Maxtor drive's health was perfectly fine! Now it's telling me the drive is overheating (which wasn't reported in the prior version). Also, new with this version is that it will only report data on the primary master HDD unless you pay for the pro version.
I have written HDDlife CS multiple times to report these issues, and have never received a single reply.
The Verdict: DON'T RELY ON THIS SOFTWARE
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: HDDlife 2.8.98
Pros: THIS IS GREAT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO KNOWS WHAT IS THE RISK IF YOUR HDD FAIL... I WOULD SAY YOU BETTER INSTALL THIS FOR ONLY 6MB TO SAVE YOUR GIGANTIC HDD...
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