Something many users tend to overlook is Windows often has what you need right there built into the operating system, sadly most of the tools are hidden away or are not well documented and therefore remain relatively unknown.
Thankfully Resource Monitor is easy to get to, simply open Windows Task Manager, click the Performance tab and then the Resource Monitor button at the bottom. Alternatively type Resmon into Start or the Run box. Windows Resource Monitor is actually quite comprehensive and besides displaying disk activity, it also shows information for CPU, network and system memory activity, all of which can be shown at the same time or separately for more detail.
To concentrate on the activity of the system drives only, select the Disk tab. Ticking one of the boxes next to a process at the top will populate the Disk Activity area with just the activity for that process, multiples can be ticked if you wish. Graphs on the right will show how much your drives are being used in real time.
A less intrusive way to keep an eye on programs accessing your drives while not having opened windows obscuring your desktop, is to show the activity from the system tray. Install Process Hacker or run the portable version and launch the program. If you select just one option it can be switched between different histories from the tray, more than one selection here will open more than one tray icon at once.
Minimize the Process Hacker window and then hover over its tray icon to see the process disk activity list popup. If you wish to keep the window open while doing other things, click the pin button.
The list auto updates every second by default it can be changed from 0. Download Process Hacker. You can find here github. I was looking for something to tell me what process was accessing my network drives, not the local hard drive.
So my issue was a little different than what is discussed here, but it turned out that Process Monitor worked great for this. I was able to set up a filter that only showed accesses to the network drives and I very quickly found out exactly what I was looking for. I was able to remove the program that was touching the drives every 20 seconds or so and preventing the drives from going to sleep. Thanks for this very informative article! Problem is most of those programs actually log their activities causing unnecessary writes to the disk as well.
I finally switched OS and rarely see a disk access. But for those who are less adventurous. If you get a warning before the hard drive meets its end, you will be able to create a backup of all your important data and save it. For this purpose, there are many free hard disk monitoring tools available that will give you the complete status of your hard drive, such as temperature, disk errors, S.
In this post, we will list down seven popular hard drive health monitoring programs that help you check heard drive health. And it represents the information in a simple manner. You will also be able to see the current temperature of your hard drive in real-time. It will also give details on the hard drive build and make, such as Firmware, Interface, Transfer Mode, Standard, and even Features.
These values are shown with the current value and worst value so you will know how wrong your hard drive health has gone in the past. Acronis Drive Monitor is a feature rich hard drive health monitoring tool that offers reliable information directly.
It offers everything you will need to check the status of your hard drive health, but its notification system is excellent and perfect for unexpected failures. In the quick overview, Acronis Drive Monitor shows total power on time, current hard drive health based on many factors , and the temperature of the hard disk.
You can also access S. It also extracts information for Windows native event log to give warnings right inside its interface. Best of all, Acronis Drive Monitor will show notifications in the system tray if there is any issue with the hard drive. Additionally, you can also set up email alerts to get an email as soon as a problem is detected. PassMark Diskcheckup is a very robust hard drive monitoring software and shows work best in the hands of an expert.
This information works fine for a novice user, but it gives a detailed overview of S. On top of all these features, it also lets you quickly check the health of multiple hard drives installed with a simple click. As the name suggests, HDDScan is for running multiple types of scan on your hard drive to determine its health. You can run long mode test to see if your hard drive has any error or may require instant data recovery. Its S. You can also change its theme to your liking and it also has command line support if you are interested.
However, it should be kept in mind that each scan takes minutes so you will have to wait a bit. It monitors disk status and disk health. It shows current temperature, S. The software is easy to install and easy to use. Acronis Drive Monitor from Acronis is another popular S. Most interestingly, it is absolutely free to use.
You can download it and use it at no cost. Your important files and documents on your hard drives are always protected with Acronis Drive Monitor. It automatically monitors the hard drives and prevents data loss. To mention some of its key features, it automatically checks for problems in the hard disks, prevents data loss, gives weekly status reports and sends you email alerts and desktop notifications.
It gives you all the necessary health status information of your hard drives. Ashampoo HDD Control offers constant hard disk monitoring, support for external USB drives, support for solid state drives, data recovery, adjustment of noise level, power management of your hard drives, and so on.
Active Hard Disk Monitor is a hard disk monitoring tool that scans the hard disks for bad sectors and monitors the parameters in order to keep you well informed about the overall health status of your hard drives, and helps you to take appropriate actions before the hard drives fail.
The simple UI lets you use the software very easily. If you like our posts, you should give our email list a try. We'll only send you emails a month. We hate spam as much as you do! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. But seriously, if you like our posts, consider to give our email list a try.
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