HDD Tools

Intel SSD Toolbox is the house mechanic for one family of solid-state drives, and it treats them with a thoroughness no generic utility matches. Health […]

A mechanical hard drive spinning at speed holds its read heads a fraction of a hair’s width above the platter surface. Knock the machine while […]

Every solid state drive maker ships a utility, and they all do roughly the same five things. ADATA SSD ToolBox is the one for drives […]

Defragmentation was once routine maintenance and is now a question with a short answer for most machines. Defraggler does the job properly, and knowing whether […]

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a defragmenter for mechanical hard drives that does more than glue scattered files back together. It also moves system files toward […]

UltraDefrag is designed to defragment FAT and NTFS drives, including registry hives and paging files. Said to provide good speeds and reliability, this HDD tool […]

The system already has a driver for these drives, it works, and the machine boots without anybody installing anything. So the question is not whether […]

Hard Disk Sentinel watches your drives so you find out they’re dying before your files do. Every hard drive and SSD keeps an internal diary […]

WD Security sets and removes the password on external drives that carry built-in hardware encryption, such as the My Passport and My Book families. The […]

WD SSD Dashboard is a free software utility designed to help users maintain the peak performance of their Western Digital solid-state drives (SSDs). With a […]

TreeSize will give you accurate information about your folders, as it will analyze the folder size and how much disk space it takes up, allowing […]

WinContig defragments files and folders, not whole drives. You pick the items that matter, such as a mail database, a game archive or a virtual […]

Samsung Magician is the management program for Samsung solid state drives. It reads the drive’s health and wear, updates its firmware, benchmarks it and scans […]

HDDScan is a powerful utility for anyone who wants to monitor, test, and analyze the health of hard drives and other storage devices. This tool […]

Kingston SSD Manager is a dedicated utility built specifically for monitoring and maintaining Kingston-branded solid-state drives. If you’re using a Kingston SSD, this software gives […]