CrystalDiskInfo 3.9.3a

Rated 50/50 by WSM7 at Aug 29, 2010

Give the temperature of the external disk too.Gives other information like the empty space too.Auto refresh and load at start up.Easy on resources. none at all. Useful. Recommended.

Rated 50/50 by marty at Sep 16, 2010

This version - 3.8.0 works great for me on Windwos 7 Ultimate 64-bit. REally good program!

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Sep 20, 2010

Open Hardware Monitor is open source and is nice too. http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ still in beta

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Sep 20, 2010

Open Hardware Monitor is open source and is nice too. http://openhardwaremonitor.org/ still in beta It sees my esata fine as does crystal disk and I'm in win7 32bit.

Rated 50/50 by CobraPL at Sep 21, 2010

There is incompatibility between some HDs regarding Power On Hours - Crystal Disk Info determines true amount of hours by detecting changes in this SMART parameter. It also have detection option for changes in Pending Sectors, Reallocated Secors and UNC errors. Any non-zero value on this fileds means that HD cannot be trusted anymore. CDI is perfect tools for frequent checking of these parameters. Crystal Disk Info does its job, It als osupports USB HDs ! Some options should be more easily accessed, but I give 4+/5 :)

Rated 30/50 by Hilbert at Sep 21, 2010

Nice but it gives different results to SpeedFan 4.41which is my normal SMART monitor. Why would the interpretation of a digital data stream be different between the two programs? CrystalDiskInfo warns me about one of my drives (normally 4 with additional 2 external eSATA) whereas SpeedFan does not. The drive in question is the same as the one in the image above, a Samsung HD103UJ. The drives typically have about 8500 hours on the clock.

Rated 20/50 by war593122 at Sep 21, 2010

Does not even see my main C drive where windows is installed. Using a very popular Raid 0 setup using two WD VelociRaptor drives. Knows nothing about my external D drive using eSATA. Also, web site does not even list Windows 7 as supported OS.. Fix this and I give it another try..

Rated 50/50 by mike59 at Nov 24, 2010

Clueless War593122 again! Raid arrays hardly ever pass SMART info n00b.

Rated 50/50 by Frutchy at Dec 10, 2010

Very readable HD info. None. None again (since it has to be more than 10 characters). I've tried quite some other software to display SMART information. This one is reliable. It recognizes disks connected to RAID controllers such as the Si3112, which is not the case with a lot of the others,like active@monitoring for instance.

Rated 50/50 by Vimes at Dec 14, 2010

An excellent piece of software that continues to be developed and supported.

Rated 30/50 by war593122 at Dec 15, 2010

mike59, so what your saying is SMART is only way to get hard disk info? No, your the newbie!! noob only started being used years have newbie. So I guess that makes you the noob?

Rated 50/50 by Agn�s Genest at Jan 23, 2011

excellently excellently excellently

Rated 10/50 by Ceadderman at Feb 15, 2011

It can't even find my Drives. It looks nice that's about all it has going for it. As I said, it couldn't find my RAID0 drive:(x2) 1TB Hitachi Deskstar HDD set in RAID0 @ 1.079 TB 128kb stripe allocation. I don't even want to give it one star but there you go. 1 star for a clean uncluttered look. And I DO mean uncluttered. Don't even waste your time with this hunk of junk because it cost me more in wasted productivity downloading this, taking the time to learn that it was junk(30 seconds) and expunging it's useless carcass out of my program directory. I'm just happy that it was a freebie program or I'd have to give myself a frontal lobotomy with a ball peen hammer for paying for it, which I didn't thank God.

Rated 10/50 by waterboyb at Feb 18, 2011

Not sure yet had to remove because of adware. Tried to install adware on my computer Microsoft Security Essentials quarantined it.

Rated 10/50 by AstuteOne at Mar 6, 2011

A well-known tool which now, apparently, contains spy-ware. AVG antivirus claims this download contains a spy-ware product it calls "Open Candy." Apparently contains spy-ware.

Rated 40/50 by dkunkelm at May 5, 2011

The software itself is quite good... Unfortunatealy, the installer versions contain the "OpenCandy" (adware) software that is a mandatory install with this software... This software is quite good. It's still free however, the installer versions have recently included a mandatory install of "OpenCandy", which is from what I've read about it an adware. They do have a zip version that the author claims to not have that adware included. I might have to use a different benchmarking tool if things get any worse with this 1 in a future release...