CrystalDiskInfo V3.6.4    Suggested by guinness - Updated by Checker on 13 Jun 2010 2MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2185) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (14) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Mopah: Is this someway better than HDD Health?
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=6 [2008-09-28 05:53]

 Mopah: Vista support, okay. Anything else? :) [2008-09-28 05:54]

 linuxamp: @Mopah
HDD Health told me both my drives were 100% healthy, -1degree Celsius, and didn't list any S.M.A.R.T attributes (Basically didn't work at all).

This app worked on all my drives (even one which was connected through an SATA/PATA adapter) and gave me a "Caution" state on one of my drives for high "Reallocated Sectors Count" prompting me to replace the drive.

So yes, I'd say it's in SOME way better. [2008-12-07 17:55]

 a: The latest version 2.0 crashes on my laptop (vista, standard setup now days) [2008-12-24 06:25]

 Sean_S: Love these "Crystal Dew World" programs! This one RELIABLY retrieved Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T. info from IDE & SATA Drives, Internal and External, including through USB (most don't)!
Several NICE Programs at http://crystalmark.info/software/index-e.html , including a cool Benchmark/SysInfo program, "CrystalMark 2004".
I have NOT check them all out for Portability, but IMO, they're worth a look! ;) [2009-02-12 10:44]

 a: The latest version still crashes on my machine running same setup as last time (HP Pavilion dv5, Vista Home Premium 32bit SP1). I've never been a fan of those "reCAPTURE" thingies, it's kind of disapointing to see it implemented on this website too. [2009-02-13 08:53]

 donald: This application seems to be using the industry manufacturing standard in measuring disk size not the base 1,024 used by every Micro$oft PC.

It seems to be using 1,000 as a base rather than the (?programmers?) accepted standard of 1,024.

1 Gigabyte at 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes
1 gigabyte at 1000 = 1,000,000,000 bytes
A difference of = 73,741,824 bytes
Please tell me if this is wrong because the only other answer I can come up with is the disk has a large unused space on it. [2009-02-14 04:10]

 Pit: I use WinXP SP3, default browser 'Firefox', CrystalDiskInfo 2.04 - I can't start CrystalDiskInfo, it crashes immediately.
What's wrong with it? [2009-02-16 12:09]

 Pavel: Can read S.M.A.R.T. from disc connected to RAID!, others program don't (for example HDD Health doesn't recognize my RAID) [2009-03-28 01:41]

 Dan: @Pit IE 6 is a requirement. See: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/Environment.html [2009-09-21 13:51]

 cosgrove: Mopah - I think it's better. HDD Health doesn't give ANY info on external USB drives on my system, but Crystal does. [2009-09-28 13:03]

 cosgrove: Donald,

The app DOES use 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. It says so in the help file - go to Help, How to Use, Main Window, general information. [2009-09-28 13:21]

 LucheLibre: The portable version of this app is still at 3.3.0. The installable is at 3.5.2. If that's what you want us to download, then the instructions need to be changed. [2010-03-06 21:14]

 Mike.S.G.: @LucheLibre: The latest zip file (3.5.3a) can be found here:

http://sourceforge.jp/projects/crystaldiskinfo/releases/ [2010-03-16 20:13]

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