CrystalDiskInfo Reviews and details

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• Everything I Know About SSDs (2019)

  >if you get the SMART data with smartmontools/smartctl, you can inspect Percentage Used. CrystalDiskInfo[1] can be used for this purpose over on Windows. Some vendor-provided utilities like Samsung Magician will also provide this data with appropriate drives. [1]: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• A3Launcher has broken my steam, more info below. Anyone know how to fix this chicanery?

  Verify that CrystalDiskInfo shows "Health: Good" for drive D. Source: 5 months ago

• Failed Hard Drive From Windows System

  Plug it directly into sata and see if it's shown in disk manager with the correct capacity. If it is post a screenshot of the smart data from https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ and we can see what the best way to proceed would be . Source: 5 months ago

• Can’t access old HDD

  The disk is likely failing. DO NOT attempt any write operations like assigning a letter or changing file ownership. What you're saying suggests that the filesystem is corrupted, it's just unclear to what extent. It would be helpful if you provided a screenshot from CrystalDiskInfo. Most likely the best course of action is to boot https://www.hddsuperclone.com/hddlivecd and image the drive to a file on a different,... Source: 6 months ago

• My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS

  Minimum write size of a modern Flash chip can be ~100MB(!) according to a comment found in a random orange website[1]. So 5MB write every 10 minutes can be 600MB/hr, which is 4.8TB/8-hr-day, which is 24TB/40-hour-week, which is 3.43 DWPD real time for a 1TB drive, and 2500 TBW in 2 years real time[2]. Official quoted specification for SN850 is 600 TBW of write endurance, likely after derating for obvious warranty... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• PC suddenly rebooting while gaming (Kernel-Power Event 41)

  Tho there's one dump that is related to drive. But that is just 1 dump to even be relevant to the issue. But ig we can rule out both https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ send a picture of this. Source: 10 months ago

• Game crashing every match.

  Game crashes all the time and you already did all of the above = all aboard the diagnostics train as it may be a number of things, from bad graphics card driver all the way overheating problems or malfunctioning components. Do the easy steps first (clean reinstall of the graphics driver + checking temps, under heavy load, and googling what's the maximum safe temperature for your processor + graphics card, it... Source: 10 months ago

• Backing up files on a new hdd, bricked both source and target drive.

  We're then going to need the smart data results from them using https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ to check if this is likely to be a physical or logical issue. Source: 10 months ago

• Old HD works on TV, but not PC

  Can you provide us with screenshots of the smart https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/. Source: 10 months ago

• BSOD Memory management (repost)

  Also have a look at your drives with CrystalDiskInfo. Source: 10 months ago

• Installer freezes just after choosing installation language.

  Please grab Crystal Disk Info It should check the health of your disks. Source: 10 months ago

• PC restarted just after boot

  For Storage Drives You can use some of Windows tools but it’s more for checking for corrupt files and repairing them 1. Using built in Windows Utilities. You can open Command Prompt or Powershell as Administrator and you can run a few commmands to make sure everything (software wise) is okay. Use sfc /scannow to run what’s called System File Checker. This will check the Windows component store for corruption and... Source: 10 months ago

• How do I backup files properly? (i'm a beginner)

  You can also monitor the health of your backup drives with something like Crystal Disk Info (https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/). This will read the SMART data off the HDD. It should warn you if it sees any problems, but the reported values can be a bit inscrutable unless you know what they mean (as different drive manufacturers store the information differently). Source: 10 months ago

• Interrupted (frozen + restart) decryption in BitLocker destroys expensive SSD.

  Try recovering the smart data with https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/. Source: 10 months ago

• Any ideas why this randomly shuts off?

  If your OS is installed on the NVMe drive, it could actually be thermal throttling and eventually causing a thermal shutdown to prevent drive damage. Have you looked at the temperature when a game is installing? You can use something like Crystal Disk Info to see what your drive temp is. Different drives have different thermal thresholds but if yours is going above about 80-90 °C, it is most likely overheating. Source: 10 months ago

• Opera browser just logged me out of everything

  I would try to clear some more space so you have some leeway. Also, you can check your hard drive health with CrystalDiskInfo to see if there any signs of it going bad. Source: 10 months ago

• gamingservicestcui.exe - Bad Image, hostfxr.dll contains an error / not designed for Windows Windows 11

  Also, just incase I would run a ssd/hdd check with a program that checks the health and Smart data situation if it happens to be more of a hardware issue, example https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ , standard edition is enough. Source: 10 months ago

• Windows keeps crashing, found this in event logger, any idea how to find out what it means?

  Check your HDD/SDD with CrystalDiskInfo and back up your data. This could lead to data loss. Source: 11 months ago

• Page crashed

  Check the health of your hard drive with CrystalDiskInfo. Source: 11 months ago

• I'm tired

  Mechanical hard drives make audible noise, so it may also be what bothers you. If a hard drive is making a lot of noise, then it may be failing. Run a health check with Crystaldiskinfo or similar to see if it spots anything. Then back up all data, wipe it and use the warranty if applicable. Source: 11 months ago

• I don’t understand what’s going on.

  If everything is crashing, make sure your boot hard drive is not full and not dying (you can use CrystalDiskInfo https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ or others). If it's full, clear up some space; if it's dying you'll have to buy a new drive and clone the old one on there (or just reinstall your OS from scratch if you prefer). Source: 11 months ago