Windows 10: Best hard drive health software?

Is Hard Disk Sentinel the best overall?

I have an SSD which had a lot of corrupt files, and I'm not sure if there's an underlying issue with this brand new Samsung QVO 870 SSD or if the file corruption was a consequence of something else.

I downloaded Hard Disk Sentinel, and it tells me everything is healthy. But I can't run any of the deeper testing (surface test, etc) without purchasing.

Want to know if that's the way to go ...

Thanks!

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Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD

 

Seagate 1TB Hard Drive Showing only 11% HEALTH

hey guys,

i just bought Seagate 1TB hard drive from a Friend few days back. it was working fine. the next day i transfer all of my data from other drives to this new 1TB hdd. today i just saw the hd tune and Hark disk Sentinel both showing low health.

as far as speed and noise is concern its absolutely perfect on these. getting 140+ avg speed and zero noise level.

here is the health screenshot





One thing i also might add, i am facing CRC error frequently, have to Force start during checking phase, while torrent downloading into this Hard drive.

Can it be a Software bug??
i need your suggestions and help. please tell me what to do.

 

Hard drive

What you are really looking for are health warnings. HD Tune will summarize the health of the hard drive. Try other functions of HD Tune until you see a list of hard drive characteristics with checkmarks or warnings on the right.