Lol, kena conned by that stupid program, the program reports that my maxtor's health is 85% but the harddisk itsefl failed to load twice, my computer major lags are caused by this stupid harddisk and the HDDLife can still report my maxtor harddisk is still in good position.

the software kenot read the status of your hard disk head la. how you know the head might crash on the disk. the software is used to read the circuit board of the hard disk.

This post has been edited by Vervain: Apr 7 2006, 01:30 PM

ya..my aged and old 40gb hdd is reported as 75% but I'm still using it to store data.

So far no crashes

It is just like an estimation I guess.

It reported mine quite okay.

Has a performance of 75% ..I use it to test my malfunctioning HDD.

85% is totaly out la, bad estimation i say, that particular hard disk, load damn slow, makes alot of noise, atleast 50% also can say the program quite ok but 85% is jut too much.

my hd notebook, it says 45% health... wtf? i juz use it 3 month.... and summore, the program not stable... when i close the program and start it again, the setting is set to default again... i hate the alarm sound, wiiiwiiiwiiiwiiiwiii when the temperature naik sikit..

try speed disk. its all estimation only la. maybe the motor or some mechanical mechanism didn't work properly

hddlife not good lah...the option to slow down the hdd performance and spin cannot be ticked one....and the Life % is truly inaccurate

Meaning that this program is useless?

i am a using a pragram called "Hard Disk Sentinel"
quite accurate .. in my opinion la...

Try dling the trial verison of activesmart... its give an eta of when ur hdd dies... of course u need to have Smart enabled in bios.

Har? how to check HDD lifespan?

My 6years old HDD still working. Now using to install macosx86!

Yeah. I hate hddlife, gave me a bad estimation that i took it for granted that my maxtor is ok, in the end, my 7k songs gone. stupid hddlife. any other good hdd monitoring software ?

never trust any kind of softwares, none are more accurate than your common sense and feelings ... You should be able to notice when a hardisk starts to fail right?

what is the pre- event b4 hdd fail then.... i am scared too... my 10k songs and lotsa movies/dramas

when ur hdd starting to have bad sector and starting to make some ticking noise.. lol

better burn out ur songs before it's too late. so u wont lose that much.

my hdd have ticking sound 3 years ago... still without any bad sector or what.... i use some program to check that it indicates this baby(maxtor) still have ages to go b4 it dies..... anyway it's my primary drive i wont cry so much if it dies

Basically all the computer hardware kinda unpredictable... they are similar as us... human and the accidents...

The key is to backup, backup and backup.... to where?
- FTP Server
- DVD
- HD DVD
- CD
- Tape Drive
- HDD
- FDD

i found out that hdd life is limited in terms of features. i think speedfan is hell lot better albeit complicated readings.

i got a 42 MB classic western digital. still functioning well.

wish can get good price for this one day . collector's item.

I have a 4Gb Quantum Fireball that's around 7 years old, still working fine, 0 bad sectors. Gotta love Quantum... too bad Maxtor acquired it but never keep up with Quantum's excellent QA