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Christin Baus

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Jun 30, 2024, 10:38:34 AM6/30/24
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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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also if its just reading the smart info off the drives i believe a number of different apps can possibly perform that. try the drive software from your drive vendor maybe ATADA SSD tools might do it? or was it samsung magician?

The apps stop showing s.m.a.r.t. data after new driver install. I never had a problem before. Like the post says if i roll back drivers everything works perfect. There must be a bug in latest software.

Almost all other drive and SSD and NVME storage tools and software i'd seen had mentioned about SMART monitoring logs and data being some sort of vulnerability where criminals could somehow predict or determine drive data or "used bits" or some sort of recovery index from the information so its advanced smart reporting features had since been disabled and only some tools may offer very limited functionality if it works at all now. Theres some chance you may not find verbose SMART data logs and reports and monitoring. Some tools previously let you download and view all SMART data. to me its all just hex and ones and zeroes everywhere so i've always ignored such features but to smelly criminals its gold. So no matter how hard you cry i dont think what you want like how it used to be will ever be the same way.

This simply does not make sense: I can read all the SMART data of the NVME that is not connected through the AMD RAID controller. It is just the driver that is buggy, as it has been stated multiple times.

Reading SMART data is essential to monitor the drive life status, its temperature and a lot of other useful data. It is possible only with administrative privileges and that fact that you don't understand it does not mean that it is not a valuable tool.

it's definitely something broken .. I'm enabling the SMART polling in the RAIDXpert2 windows app and in the next restart it's disabled again and of course I'm not getting any SMART readings, even when it states that it is enabled.

This is happening to me too in a different way. Had a x470 system with NVMe drives and a StoreMI HDD with SSD cache and SMART info was working fine on all my drives - even the joined StoreMI drives were separately show (HWinfo64) with all SMART info. I could see temps and all the other info. Get my x570 Ryzen 5000 build up and running with new drives and some from the x470 system (with know working SMART info displayed) and now all SMART info is missing. HWinfo64 debug file clearly shows Read SMART Failed on all drives. I know the drives support it. And Ive seen AMD Ryzen systems even with StoreMI showing SMART info, but now the latest drivers and chipsets - whatever AMD has done - is not allowing any SMART info. Hope they can make an update soon to correct this. I have a brand new build with expensive drives that im not sure if they are running hot or keep having read errors (I doubt they are, but still)

Any chance this can be fixed as its still broken in the latest driver ? cant even disable and re enable it will still be disabled, i sometimes just wanna see remaining life left or current drive temps, i have no way of doing that right now and its annoying

hardware sentinel is annoying app that changes things without permision i wont install that, and i do not trust it, i usually use crystaldiskinfo or hwinfo64 im currently back on older raid drivers for now.

It does not change anything, except the disk icons to reflect the disk health in Explorer but it can be easily disabled on Configuration -> Disk Control page. It does not change/modify any settings - especially if you use the portable version.

As HDS has far better support of RAIDs / disks / controllers than anything else (you can see this as example) I see no reason of using other tools, but maybe one day they can be as powerful too - if Sentinal shows that it's possible

I just tried Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 5.70.9 beta and it displays the complete S.M.A.R.T. details for NVMe SSDs in RAID arrays too when the recent driver installed (and after an extra reboot). It shows lifetime writes, health, temperature, wearout etc.

- added support of AMD NVMe RAID solution: detect the status (health, temperature, lifetime writes, complete self-monitoring details) of NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs managed by AMD RAID (both standalone and RAID configurations)
Requires AMD RAID driver 9.3.0-00266 or newer version.
Note: if the detection does not seem working immediately, a reboot / power cycle may be required

hello i have the same problem, raid 0 with 4 nvme Kingston FURY Renegade and no have info data smart, ( samsung magician, crystaldiskinfo, ssd kingston manager?, i have instaled hdsentinel and info appear, but the problem is that I want to have access, to be able to update the nvme firmware later.

The main features of CrystalDiskInfo include showing important information about your drives, keeping an eye on their S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) values, and tracking the temperature of the drives. When you want to know detailed information about the hard drives in your computer, CrystalDiskInfo is a go-to option. It presents the data in a straightforward manner, making it easy to read and understand. The tool checks on various aspects of your drives, like their overall health status and operational temperature. It can also send you warnings if it detects any potential issues, helping you prevent data loss or drive failure. Once you open CrystalDiskInfo, you'll see a summary of your drives at the top of the window, including their health status and, if available, temperature. If you click on a specific drive, the program will show more details about it, such as its name, model, capacity, and other technical data. For example, it will tell you how many times the drive has been powered on and for how long, as well as the number of reads and writes it has processed. This information helps you understand how much use your drive has seen and its current condition.

Although not all SSDs come with temperature sensors, CrystalDiskInfo will display this information for those that do. The tool also shows whether your drive supports certain features like S.M.A.R.T., TRIM, and NCQ, which are technologies designed to improve performance and reliability. CrystalDiskInfo has several settings and options. You can change the interface language, choose different fonts, and decide what information you want to copy from the program. It includes a variety of advanced features, such as detailed graphs showing many disk parameters, options for displaying startup and temperature information, and direct links to Windows Device Manager and Disk Manager for further disk management tasks.

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