Very simple application for checking the temperature of your Hard Drives. Like other apps of this kind, the Hard Drive has to support the Check Temp, otherwise it will not work (for examples most of old Maxtors support it, but most of old Western Digitals do not). All new HDD do support the check temp.

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Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. Here you can find more infos about hard disk wiping/erasing.

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RATING: EXCELLENT

HDDlife is a program that will allow you to control the health of your hard drive using a simple interface. Just run the program and it will show you the list of your disks with the percentage of their health left , as well as their temperature.

HDDlife can work in the preventative mode when it checks the health of your hard drives at regular intervals and informs you about the results of these checks in an unobtrusive way. If you get warned about a possible hard drive failure.

Very interesting is Just Now! feature: it is a technology that allows you to find out the state of health and performance rate of your hard drives immediately both when you start the program for the first time. There is no need to control disks over a long period of time!

This app is both freeware and shareware. All its most important features can be used for free without limitations.

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RATING: GOOD