HDDlife Professional 3.1.157

Publisher's Description:

HDDlife is a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system which controls all of your hard drive risks. It uses S.M.A.R.T. technology and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.

HDDlife has the following other editions available: HDDlife for Notebooks, HDDlife and HDDlife plug-in for Google Desktop.

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	Jason404	Jul 5, 2007
Version:	3.0.140
This is actually a good SMART monitoring program with a nice interface and useful options. I have tried a few and found this one to be the best. However, none of them are any use on my server, as they don't work on drives in PCI/PCIe controller cards, or drives running in RAID.
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Reviewer:	dankarlan	Jun 18, 2007
Version:	3.0.139
Avoid this product and the people who produce it (BinarySense). I've been trying now for more than 2 months to get them to refund the ppurchase price for HDDLife, and they will not do it. They even asked me to sign a statement declaring that I have completely removed all trace of HDDLife from my system before they would refund my money. I printed, filled out, and mailed the form (to Russia!), but 10 weeks later, they still haven't refunded my money. Why did I want a refund? Because I could not get the product to start up after installing, and they repeatedly suggested workarounds that didn't work, until I finally gave up.
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Reviewer:	ravemanson	Apr 16, 2007
Version:	3.0.129 Beta
- LOWER YOUR VOLUME ! - The extremely, unnecessarily loud warning-sound, even worse than when Kaspersky AV founds a virus, almost made me give it a 3 instead of a 4. (YES, i KNOW You can turn those sounds off, if they wouldn't it would definitely recieve a 3. Tinnitus is a quite high price to pay to try a software that might save Your HD...) Found problems as soon as i installed it, something like this is recommended if You don't want to use a a diagnostics suite to manually check the SMART status. It's quite the resource-chunk, starting up slowly and sometimes freezing when changing options. I wonder if anyone actually buy software like this; You typically just install it to check the status for a week or so and then You won't need it to check the status again for many months to come anyway. UPDATE - The uninstallation fails due to "another installation currently active", which doesn't work until You manually kill one of the program's processes, even after a restart of the computer. It sometimes also freezes for no reason after a few minutes after booting. Did they intentionally put "BETA" in the topic because they are too lazy to actually fix the bugs instead? This is too much to be recommended, changing to a 2, since it actually does "work" sometimes.
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Reviewer:	bello	Sep 25, 2006
Version:	2.9.102 RC1
Watch out guys! Don't ever try this kind horrorware ! Half year ago after using it within 3 days ate my HDD after . There are many free softs that do the same job but very safe at the same time...
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Reviewer:	photonboy	Jul 28, 2006
Version:	2.8.100 Beta
WARNING: I believe all such programs prevent hard drives from spinning down. Ironically, the software that is meant to look for premature wearing actually helps to cause it!
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