HDDScan Reviews

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• How to verify health of the newly purchased refurbished harddrive?

  This is the correct url right? https://hddscan.com/. - Source: Reddit / 30 days ago

• Look at this pc i found thrown away. Yes those are all 4tb hdds so 16tb total. Time to download my entire steam library on these puppies : D

  Smart diagnostics can be done with drive manufacturer's utilities, or a number of third-party utilities, such as hddscan for windows. Some major brand oem systems (such as dell, hp) have diagnostics baked into the motherboard firmware that can do these tests as part of its overall diagnostics test suite. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• What is wrong with my PC?

  I don't remember for sure what software I used but I think it was HDDscan. My device was a 1TB hdd. Before even scanning I noticed it was constantly at 100% utilizarion in task manager and simple things like opening a browser or file could take up to 10 minutes. If you have an ssd I couldn't say too much about those going bad. I only dealt with a bad ssd once at work. In that case the oc would not even boot. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• My pc is too slow and it doesn't make any sense

  What does crystal disk info say about your hdd? Have you run any diagnostics? Check the mfg's website to see if there is one, or use hddscan. Remember to always back up important data. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Black Screen After Closing Laptop Lid

  Troubleshooting these seemingly random things can be a pain, so I would start ruling out the more direct tests, first going to the official website for your laptop model and checking the support/downloads page to make sure you have their latest drivers and BIOS running. Then make a few checks on the devices, like a quick SMART check on the system disk and even performing a memory test. This could help level the... - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Blue Screen on all games - but not on benchmarks

  There are disk health checking tools that you could use, most of them tend to record issues into the SMART table, or you could run a surface test. For example HDDScan is a small, free tool, you can try the SMART check first and if that fails run a surface test (do NOT use the data wiping tool with the red icon). - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

• got my file structure corrupted, formatted the drive, now recovered files still are corrupted

  HDDScan is actually here: https://hddscan.com/. - Source: Reddit / 6 months ago

• everything either won't launch or launches and doesn't respond

  You can also check your HDD condition https://hddscan.com/ or https://www.hdtune.com/ and RAM memory https://www.memtest86.com/. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• My PC got from working fine to completely unuseable for games

  Sounds like a drive issue. HDD or SSD? Might be worth using something like HDDscan to check their health. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• Is my new PC actually old? is Crystaldisk accurate?

  The power-on hours and count come from the SMART results reported by the hardware. You could use another tool that reads SMART results like HDDScan, to see if they are consistent with each other. - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• I bought an 18TB refurbished external hard drive on a whim from Amazon. What kind of testing should I do when it arrives?

  Just do a full format (not quick format) of the disk if using windows. Then do a full smart scan with something like hddscan (https://hddscan.com/), stablebit scanner (paid, but 30 day trial), or WD Lifeguard (https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3&lang=en) or Seagate Seatools (https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/). - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• laptop freezes

  Then use something like CrystalDiskInfo or HDDScan to check the external drive for errors. - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• This SSD I/O issue makes me feel like I don't belong in IT anymore

  I got a hold of Hiren's Boot CD ISO which when booted provides a WinPE loaded with different tools and diagnostic software and I ran a tool called HDScan and I run the Erase test - this test starts off fine, with all blocks written without much latency, and then hits blocks with 500ms+ delays. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Is my T30's HDD failing?

  Probably, maybe you can test it first with e.g. https://hddscan.com/ New ones are cheaper from China... (but long wait). - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• How to CHKDSK

  I use HDDScan. It's a titally FREE HDD and SSD scanning tool with huge amount of features and clear and ituitive GUI. Https://hddscan.com/. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Need Advice for Long-Term Storage

  Download HDDScan.exe (https://hddscan.com/) and run extended SMART test. It's a free app. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Shucking WD Drives

  Https://hddscan.com/ - Free program for write and read tests, although I have heard of some people with issues using read/write test. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Can't initialise secondhand SSD. Get Cyclic Redundancy Errors.

  You can do further testing by downloaded the program HDDScan: https://hddscan.com/ Use it to run the drive's built in self-test: Tools > Smart Test > Extended If that completes without error, you can also launch a manual read+write test of the drive: Tests > Erase. (This is data destructive obviously, so make sure you definitely have the correct drive selected.). - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Cleaning out old boxes. Once I clean these then what?

  Or just use something like HDDScan: https://hddscan.com/ and use erase test. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Are WD Drives sold by Amazon OEM or Retail?

  Stress test however you want to. I'm more familiar with Windows. I use Hard Disk Sentinel (https://www.hdsentinel.com/) and/or HDD Scan (https://hddscan.com/). Usually a good full disk write test followed by a full surface scan suffices. I also use Stablebit Scanner only because I own it and it runs a surface scan of all the disks in my Windows server automatically on a monthly basis. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Consumer vs enterprise grade drives for desktop home use

  I would run a surface scan or torture test of some sort over the full disk before shucking to make sure it's fine. HDD Scan (https://hddscan.com/) is a good free utility for Windows. Or just do a full disk format. If you're on Linux do a badblocks test. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago