Monitoring your Hard Disk Performance - CrystalDiskInfo

Every PC users knows that one important component of a computer performance relies heavily in the performance of your hard disk. If you are not aware of the condition of your gard drive you will caught up in a situation of hard disk crash, will be sorry that all your valuable data is lose. It should be great knowing of a utility that could report on your hard disk's health, to alert us, letting you know it's time to make backups.

CrystalDiskInfo -  a small utiliy program that give you a heads-up that tell you about the hardware performance of your hard disk - This includes details such as drive temperature, how often it's been started or stopped. It provides you with a nice meter to give you an easy graphical representation and the best part of course it is FREE!.

A modern drives monitoring called S.M.A.R.T (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) found in modern day hardrives designed to  monitor a number of parameter on a hard disk - To give you access to the system that's where CrystalDiskInfo will come in. 

Features: 

• Supports S.M.A.R.T where comprehensive graph is shown
• Display drive temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Integrated temprature alarm automatically notifies you when a drive reaches a certain temprature
• Simple interface and display perfromance statistics  

Download link

http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en

http://download.cnet.com/CrystalDiskInfo/3000-2086_4-10832082.html