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Test the speed of your hard drives thoroughly, with ATTO Disk Benchmark

ATTO Disk Benchmark is a free tool you can use to make sure how fast your hard drives are in reading and writing data. It’s one of the most reliable programs you can find for this job, running several tests that reveal the abilities of your disks in all types of transfers. The program is […]

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Check your drive for bad sectors, with Macrorit Disk Scanner

If your hard disk started to cause problems, most probably the time has come for you to change it. You may have tried Windows CheckDisk to fix it, only to find out that the “fixed” remains a source of instability in your system. A new check and fix is just waste of time. Macrorit Disk […]

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Monitor PC temperature, voltages and speeds, even using a desktop gadget, with Open Hardware Monitor

Open Hardware Monitor is a free application that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer. It supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards like the ITE, Winbond and Fintek families. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. […]

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Monitor disk activity from the desktop with FloatLED

FloatLED is a free utility that will let you watch (internal or external) hard disk activity. Your regular drive LED on the PC box is only one, which means that you never know from what drive exactly comes the activity you watch. You need also to have the box of your PC before you in […]

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