HD Tune v2.55
Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013 Change history
- 595KB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by Tony Lau
HD Tune is a hard disk utility that has the following functions: information (partition information, firmware version, serial number etc.), benchmark (transfer rate, access time, burst rate etc.), health (S.M.A.R.T parameters, temperature etc.) and whole disk surface scan.
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
| Writes settings to: | Windows registry |
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| Stealth: ? | No |
| License: | Free for personal use |
| How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder. Launch HDTune.exe. |
3 comments on HD Tune
CD
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
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.
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Cpu usage reported is very high compared to HD Tach (3.0.1.0, something is clearly wrong with HD Tune (2.52).
Tested on HP Pavilion (Centrino 1.5 GHz)