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The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users.

HDD Guardian alerts you in case of imminent failure, temperature threshold or vital parameter change.

Get HDD Guardian and take it for a test drive to see how useful it can actually be for managing your hard disk drive and getting information about its current status!

automatic translation (if language files doesn't exists, it load automatically english). Available languages: english, italian and hungarian;
easy device overview, with temperature, last test result, overall health and bad sectors indication;
display an optional icon into the tray area for each fixed device;
HDD Guardian tray icon change shield color if a device is failing;
automatically export smartctl output into a specified folder;
monitor virtual devices loaded from a shared smartctl output;
displays device identity information;
perform self-test and displays their results;
allow enabling/disabling S.M.A.R.T., automatic offline data collection (an automatic test performed by device every four hours) and autosave of vendor-specific attributes;
displays attributes informations and graphs;
displays device capabilities;
displays device error log;
allow to set device-specific tolerance, attribute format and firmware debug;
allow to set warnings behaviour.