Hard Drive Inspector Professional keeps all of your system's attributes and hard disk health information in one, nicely wrapped package. However, we found a minor discrepancy with the information it provided us.
The user interface is beautifully designed, with large command buttons at the top for saving and sending data reports, and configuration options. Tabs organized the diagnostic information into three categories: Health Summary, Technical Info, and S.M.A.R.T. Details. From the Health Summary window, we got a brief summary of the amount of available space left on our hard disks, our disk model, and the temperature; although the temperature given on the main interface did not match the temperature given on our taskbar. But beyond that, we were able to view, in detail, our hard disk information, including serial, model, and firmware numbers, as well as logical and physical geometry info. The S.M.A.R.T. Details listed our system's attributes, along with their current stages, values, and flags.
The Help file does offer more detailed explanations of the program's features, so you don't have to be an expert to know how to read the information it provides. Though we would have liked to have seen a trial period longer than 14 days, we still recommend this program as a worthy diagnostic tool.
Hard Drive Inspector 3.98 Requirements:
MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
Intel 486DX with 32 MB RAM
5 MB free disk space
An ATA S.M.A.R.T.-capable hard disk drive
A mouse
16-color VGA Card (High Color recommended).
Hard Drive Inspector 3.98 What's new:
added the support the Toshiba Stor.E Steel series external drives
added the support the Seagate Expansion external drives
Hard Drive Inspector 3.98 Pro Full Patch
Reviewed by Drama Malaysia, Waktwo
on
April 26, 2012
Rating: