Re: Crystal Disk Info External Drive
Brie Hoffler
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T. It supports a part of external USB disks, monitoring health status and temperature, graph of S.M.A.R.T. information, control AAM/APM settings and more.
CrystalDiskInfo is an app designed to help you keep your PC's hard drive healthy. The app, which supports S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) technology, helps you detect and prevent future disk surface errors so that you can take timely action before data loss becomes irreplaceable.
The first thing you will see when running CrystalDiskInfo is a clear and simple interface that displays all the detailed information about your main hard disk: from the brand and model to the buffer size and cache, as well as the serial number or even the firmware. With a single click, you can take a look at any other hard disk connected to the PC. And again, you can instantly see data such as the temperature or the hours it has been on.
The software uses a color scheme to warn you about the dangerousness of the disk status. By default, if all goes well, the most important information on your hard disks will appear in green or blue, depending on the style you are using. This way, if you see that the temperature or some other parameter turns yellow, you know you should be careful and pay attention to any possible problem.
CrystalDiskInfo is an excellent tool for monitoring hard disks and SSD drives to know, with a simple glance, the health status of one of the most important parts of your PC. The program is also fully customizable, with different color schemes, dark mode and the possibility to choose from more than twenty different languages.
No, CrystalDiskInfo isn't available on Mac. CrystalDiskInfo is only available on Windows, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11, as well as various versions of Windows Server.
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I have a very annoying problem with my notebook. I have an internal SSD drive with system and an external old HDD drive (in optical disk bay) for large games mostly. The problem is, that the HDD drive keeps spinning down, after every 10 seconds of inactivity. This happens no matter what - tried everything (windows power management included), without luck - disk totally ignores all the settings every time. This makes unbearable lags when trying to access new data after spindown, thing that makes most games unplayable. These constant spinups/downs also shortens disk life.
So after trying some methods i decided to write a C# application, which will simply count lines in a random file from the list below - located on external drive, by reading file line-by-line. Its a winforms app, but method keepSpinning is called in a separated thread.
Well. Surprisingly, this also doesn't work. It works for a while, but then it keeps printing the info of read file but disk stops. I guess the drive is caching those files somehow. Also lines-counting method is quite CPU intensive.Any advice on code changes would be helpful, also looking forward for any other solutions.
First of all, thank you all for all the responses. I tried some different approach and finally, after a year of struggling found a solution. Sorry for not giving the HDD name. Here it is: WD750BPVT. I also didn't mention about second problem: the drive was clicking when idle, few times before disk spindown.I'll answer my own question to save hair on someone's head. The problem was not easy to track.
Writing a C# app was quite good approach, but it has its drawbacks. When I changed the code to write data instead of read, it was quite a success (none spindowns) but the drive was constantly clicking when idle (each 2-3 secs).
Someone would say, that the HDD is ready to die because of clicking sound and I should backup my data while getting ready to trash the device. However I found an explanation. The reason of all these things is a feature, designed to save some power and disk lifetime (sic!). This feature, or actually two of them are:
Power management regulates spindowns and acoustic management is responsible for head parking (clicking noise).All you have to do is simply disable both of these.You can do this for example in CrystalDiskInfo: functions -> advanced -> AAM/APM control, select the drive you want and click both disable buttons. Problem solved until reboot. Its not permanent, so adding CrystalDiskInfo to startup is a good move.
I have some usb external drivers that i use to do data copies. These external usb drives are not shown on smart tab under storage. Would be possible to shown that info in order to check general status of external drives?? If not, is there any way to shown general status of these external drives under omv??
Yes, it is possible. But it depends of the SATA2USB-bridge controller which is used in the external drive case. That means it not depends of OMV but the capabilities of the used hardware and firmware of the controller.
E.g. I use a Fantec DB-ALU3-6G (Model #1659) USB3.0 case for USB backup. This case uses a ASMEDIA ASM1153E bridge controller. This controller supports SMART via USB also (By the way: It does not do 4K sector translation with drives > 2TB. This was the main reason why I bought it).
I'm in the process of upgrading (memory and adding internal drive) a 5 yo Dell XPS 8700 desktop because of general slowness but am first trying my best to clean up computer and troubleshoot a common 100% disk use issue. I (re)installed the free version of MB and found a few threats on my 1 TB hard drive, quarantined those, and then decided to scan a 8 TB external drive that is usually connected and is nearly full (might be the problem?) mostly with disorganized backups and recovered files and a lifetime of my own photos (i.e., not risky stuff pulled off the internet).
The scan has now been running for 152+ hours (almost a week), covering >16M files, and only appears about halfway done based on the green fill of the MB taskbar icon. It advanced from Scan File System to Heuristics at least once but is now doing both of those simultaneously and has identified 67 supposed threats so far- 61 of those are "Riskware.ExtensionMismatch" jpegs. It seems to keep getting stuck on single files, and usually tiny ones- for example has being currently scanning a 2 kb (not a typo) .htm in one of my recovery folders for more than 12 hours now?
Secondly, is there any reason/explanation for the scan taking this long? I'm reluctant to ever do it again on an external drive if it will tie it up for more than a week? Could it be as simple as the drive being too full?
Now, that said.... 16 million files is going to take a LONG time with any security software. There really is no reason to do a Full scan more than once. Malware does not just randomly show up in folders. All known locations of malware are already scanned via normal Threat Scan.
However, I do have other non malware advice concerning your drive. Just a reminder that if that drive were to fail tomorrow and could not be recovered would that be an acceptable loss for you? If not then I would highly recommend that you obtain another drive with the same or higher space capacity and back that drive up. Then once it's backed up disconnect it from the system. If an infection were to hit the main computer it could very easily encrypt or otherwise damage the data on a backup drive too.
Thanks Maurice. When I look at those quarantined jpeg files- 1 restored back to its original folder- nothing appears any different than the thousands of other similar files in the same folders. And they are (almost) all my own images, not stuff pulled off the internet, so I have no reason to suspect origin or security issues. But when I rescanned the folder with a restored jpeg from quarantine it was again identified as a threat the second time. The article you linked doesn't help me understand why any of these were flagged or if I should be worried about them?
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