The main window with the information about the disk. The overall general state of its health is shown together with the percentage of the remaining life and performance rate. If you have several hard drives, you can switch among them using the tabs at the top of the window.
This sample screenshot shows the situation when the state of health is not good and the life of the disk is in danger. In this case, we recommend that you keep HDDlife® constantly running in the background mode and monitoring the state of the disk automatically at least once every half an hour. And you must not forget to back up your data regularly.
In this screenshot you can see an example of how HDDlife® works if it detects that the life and the health of a disk is at the critical level. It is recommended that you back up all your data immediately and to replace your hard drive as soon as possible.
Currently, USB hard drives are getting more and more popular. Speed, availability, ease of use, large amounts of information – all that takes you to a new level of mobile freedom and functionality. One of the new features in HDDlife® version 3.0 allows you to control the performance of external drives, now the program supports USB. Now the program can work with drives from the largest Japanese IO-Data company and with Western Digital Passport drives.
Detailed SMART report.
With the suggestions of professional users taken into account, HDDlife® 3.0 now has a new feature – detailed SMART information, which allows you to view detailed information about attributes. SMART monitors the main characteristics of the drive showing them in the form of numbers.
Power and Accoustic management
Hard drive overheating due to the increase in the power it consumes is a serious problem, especially for those who use portable computers – laptops. The AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) technology found in all modern hard drives allows adjusting your disk's noise levels, but there's no way to access it from Windows - except HDDlife®! If your computer sits in a bedroom, you'll certainly appreciate the ability to easily silence your hard drives by enabling a silent mode without sacrificing too much performance. HDDlife® allows you to fine-tune your disk's noise level and adjust noise vs. performance the way you like.
AnywhereView™ - monitoring the health of hard drives in any program.
The icon representing their health is displayed directly on the icons of the hard drives in all programs on your computer - from the My Computer window with the list of drives and to the "Open File" dialog box of any program - Word, Notepad, etc. You will never forget about the health of your hard drives and about the safety of your data!
All-in-One - All HDDlife® features in one screenshot!
1. You should draw an image containing disk, health and free space icons in one png file. You can see a sample file to the right or you can download it at the bottom of the page.
All icons in the file have the following size: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16. The order of icons in the file:
Disk icon.
100% free space icon.
80% free space icon.
60% free space icon.
40% free space icon.
20% free space icon.
0% free space icon.
Health icon (health - ОК).
Possible problem icon (health - ATTENTION!)
Dangerous disk icon (health – DANGER!).
The resulting icon consists of the disk icon and the corresponding free space and health icons combined together.
2. Make a short comment on the skin - for instance, mentioning the author :) - in a plain text file with the same name as the png file, but with the .info extension.
3. Pack both files (png & info) into a zip archive with the same name as these files.
4. Change the archive extension from .zip to .hddlifeskin.
Thus, if you create a skin called MySkin, for instance, you must get the file MySkin.hddlifeskin, which is a zip archive with two files in it - MySkin.png and MySkin.info
That's all, your skin is ready!
You can try it on your computer. To do this, just copy your skin into the skins subfolder of the folder where HDDlife® is installed and then enable it in the settings!
If you want to make this skin available to other users as well, send it to us at support@hddlife.com and we will publish it on our site!
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