CrystalDiskInfo & CrystalDiskMark

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These are two great utilities for checking your disk health and your disk read/write speeds.

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/manual-en/

Windows 10 Pro 22H2

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Yeah, CrystalDiskInfo is an excellent utility for checking the health of your hard drives. It is much better than simply relying on S.M.A.R.T. reporting since some hard drive manufacturers choose to not have their hard drives correctly report S.M.A.R.T. status in order to hide issues about their failing hard drives. I won’t name names, other than to say that one manufacturer bought out Maxtor many years ago, noted design and technology flaws in Maxtor’s hard drives and in Maxtor’s production lines, stated that they would have to replace the equipment on Maxtor’s production lines, and that this would result in a huge write-off regarding the acquisition of Maxtor. What was stated and what subsequently happened are two different things.

So yeah, CrystalDiskInfo, is my preferred utility for verifying the true health of all of my hard drives. Yet one has to be careful about what version one installs. The last time I checked, the MSI installer for CrystalDiskInfo also installs Open Candy advertising malware. Technically, Open Candy is a PUP (a potentially unwanted program), but since Open Candy is so difficult to uninstall once it gets its hooks into your operating system, I consider it to be malware. In other words, you want the zip file and not the MSI for CrystalDiskInfo.

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