Know About Potential Malfunctions of Your Hard Drive to Take Measures Beforehand BinarySense Ltd. announces the release of version 3.0 of HDDlife, an acknowledged solution for controlling the conditions of your hard drives. The new version has many peculiar features enhancing the tool's efficiency and providing a comfortable working experience.
Nowadays, a hard drive failure is still a common thing. Even modern hard drives that beat the records of disk space day by day remain vulnerable to overheat and wear-and-tear. Whichever hard disk you have, you can't be completely sure that it won't break down some day. To be more confident about the stability of your drive you should take full advantage of HDDlife 3.0. It will let you know about any potential hazards, so you can safeguard the information and prevent the loss of valuable data. The new version has become more convenient and functional.
HDDlife 3.0 is delivered in an intuitive interface providing access to essential information about your drives right away. At startup, the tool will immediately show the list of hard drives, displaying the percentage of their health along with their temperature. You can always send the hard drive indicator to the system tray. Such a visual approach to monitoring allows you to observe read\write operations of your drives at any time. What's more, HDDlife 3.0 uses new advanced mathematical algorithms to give the most accurate estimates of disk health.
The utility comes with integrated S.M.A.R.T. technology support. It allows HDDlife 3.0 to monitor S.M.A.R.T. attributes in real time. The tool will alert you at once if one of the monitored attributes exceeds the threshold values. And it can run regular checkups to inform you daily about disk conditions and performance, so you'll also know when a hard drive starts to slow down. All the disk reports are presented in a clear and easy to understand manner.
Another power feature of HDDlife 3.0 will benefit those who use USB hard disks. Now you can monitor the status of a USB hard disk just like any other ordinary hard drive. The program currently supports external hard drives from IO-Data and Western Digital Passport. Also HDDlife 3.0 can safeguard your disk drives against overheat. The new power management feature allows you to define power consumption values manually, which is especially important for the owners of notebooks, as it will extend the notebook's lifespan.
HDDlife 3.0 will also be a perfect hard drive monitoring solution for the users of Microsoft Windows Vista. The utility runs under Vista smoothly and meets all the requirements set forth by the "Works on Windows Vista" certificate.
HDDlife also comes with a gadget for Windows Sidebar that will display the information about the hard disk, including its temperature and health. It will also let you observe read/write operations of your drives at any time. A freeware version of this gadget with some functional limitations is available too.
Pricing and Availability HDDlife 3.0 runs under all 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows Vista and costs $19 (USD) for a single-user license. Licensed customers are entitled to the fully-functional version of the product, free technical support and free upgrades. Additional information on HDDlife 3.0, as well as a free trial copy is available free of charge from http://www.HDDlife.com/
About BinarySense Ltd. Founded in 2005, BinarySense is an Information Technology company developing software for hard drive failure analysis and prevention. BinarySense is the author of HDDlife, which has thousands of users worldwide and is available in fourteen languages. For more information, please visit www.HDDlife.com. |