What is your hard drive temperature and health?
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Loading ...All your data in your PC or laptop stored on a hard drive. But what if the hard drive is failing or feels unhealthy? How we can check this before we lost our data? Do you know that safe maximum hard drive temperature is around 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Hard drive overheating may causing lockups or crashes during your work in Windows, or even sudden “blue screen of death”. What is the temperature of the hard drive in your PC? Sometimes it’s so hot that you can’t even touch it.
How to check the hard drive temperature and its health status? What is Safe Hdd temperature in a Laptop?
You do not need to open your laptop or PC case. All you need is one of the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring utilities. Every hard drive reports their parameters via special technology, called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). This program monitors the temperature of your disks and alert you if the hard drive is too hot to operate safely so you can shut down your PC or take a break.
One the best available hard drive temperature monitors and S.M.A.R.T. utilities is ActiveSMART by Ariolic Software (see the screenshot below):
It’s a special system software for a regular non tech-savvy user. ActiveSMART supports the special S.M.A.R.T. self-testing technology implemented in all hard drives. It retrieves the health information from the disk, checks it and show as simple information, understandable for the regular user
Download and install ActiveSMART and it will monitor more then 20 vital hard drive parameters, including Hard drive Performance, Health, Temperature and Free Space information. In case of any possible problems with the hard disk you will receive an alert before it even happen, or (if you are busy) – it will automatically put your PC or notebook in a Sleep mode.
The main important thing – if the hard disk feels unhealthy then ActiveSMART will alert us and tell what’s the problem and what we should do – make a further hdd testing or backup your documents to other location.
This cute utility does not require to be a geek – just install it and pay attention on ActiveSMART alerts – that’s it. Your hard drives and all data on them will be safe.
Download ActiveSMART now or visit Ariolic website and find out more about how to protect your hard drives and avoid failures.
By the way, do not forget to check ActiveSMART users testimonials – a lot of interesting stories.
If you need to find a suitable hard drive for your PC or notebook or you want to check yours – you can check the big collection of hard drives at http://www.testhdd.com
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