How to check the health of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD)
To get the most out of your PC and avoid serious data loss situations, checking and maintaining the quality of your Storage device is essential. In this video, we have covered how to examine the health of storage devices.
The system either has a Hard Disk Drive, Solid state drive, or both, to store our data and Operating system. In Dard Disk Drives, data is read off a rotating magnetic disc that serves as a storage medium for information. This means that there are physically weak areas that could result in malfunctions. Whereas a Solid State Drive has no moving parts like a spinning magnetic disk, and stores the information in flash memory chips. That is why SSDs are reliable.
The storage drives use the same diagnostic and troubleshooting tools, no matter the type of drive you’re using. In this video, we have covered "Four" methods to test the health of our storage drives. Regular checks can prevent sudden loss of our data, in the future, due to permanent storage drive failure.
I hope the video is informative to you and proves helpful. Thank you.
Resources:
Official Links to Storage Drive Managers:
a. Crystaldiskinfo:
https://crystalmark.info/en/software/...
b. Dashboard (WD):
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers...
c. SeaTools (Seagate):
https://www.seagate.com/in/en/support...
d. Samsung Magician:
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/con...
e. Kingston SSD Manager:
https://www.kingston.com/en/support/t...
f. Crucial Storage Executive:
https://www.crucial.in/support/storag...
Articles to read:
a. chkdsk:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/win...
b. diskdrive:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/win...
Commands used:
a. wmic diskdrive get model, status
b. "C:\Windows\System32\wbem\wmic.exe" diskdrive get model, status
c. chkdsk g: /f (Note: Target drive is "g" in the command)
d. chkdsk c: /r (Note: Target drive is "c" in the command)
Note: C" drive is my Windows OS drive.
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