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HD Tune v2.55

lwc on 7 Aug 2021
  • 595KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Feb 2008
  • Suggested by Tony Lau

HD Tune is a hard disk utility that includes drive info, benchmarking, and drive health. Information includes partitions, firmware version, serial number, etc. while benchmarking covers transfer rate, access time, burst rate, and more. Health parameters include the S.M.A.R.T details as well as temperature and a whole disk surface scan.

Functional with SSD and flash memory.

Note: this is the last freeware version. A "pro" version with additional features is available from the website.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Windows registry
Stealth: ? No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the files from {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch HDTune.exe
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CD on 2007-03-09 07:36

Very nice little program. Swiss army knife of HD software.

I was worried that this program writes to the registry (HKLM\HDTune), but you can avoid this by NEVER changing the default options/configurations. You can look at the options, just DO NOT click OK. There are very few options anyways and the default options are fine.

The only registry entries left will be the regular entries for recently used documents, recent files, MRU, etc. But these cannot be avoided because they are Microsoft generated.

Dan Dascalescu on 2009-02-21 17:28

Neither HDTune 2.53, nor HDTune Pro 3.50 ever detected the SMART parameters of my internal laptop drive (a Hitachi HTS721060G9SA00). HDDScan and CrystalDiskInfo detected them fine.

bzl333 on 2013-07-29 00:39

Softpedia has a portable version:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/System-Enhancements/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-HD-Tune.shtml

not listed on the HDTune website afaik.

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DTemp v1.00 Build 34 (RC8)

lwc on 7 Aug 2021
  • 208KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Aug 2002
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

DTemp is a small program that sits in the system tray and monitors the temperature of your harddisks. It is also able to warn you about runaway harddisk temperature or impending harddisk failure based on its S.M.A.R.T parameters.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Windows registry. But given the nature of the application, I think it can be accepted as portable.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on DTemp.exe.
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syst3m on 2010-05-27 21:53

DTemp.att is missing..

webfork on 2011-05-24 21:43

rziman: thanks, updated

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