HD Tune is a software utility that functions for monitoring, looking for errors, seeing the health status or condition of your laptop/computer hard drive.
The HD Tune application has 4 main menus that we can use to check the condition of the hard drive, namely:
- Benchmarking the hard drive aims to measure hard drive performance. In this benchmark menu we can find out the transfer rate, access time, burst rate and CPU usage.
- Transfer Rate is the speed at which the hard drive sends data to the computer or it can also be referred to as the hard drive read speed. Read speed is measured in megabytes per second (MB/sec). The average maximum and minimum speeds are shown on the right. The blue line in the graph indicates the reading performance of the entire disk.
- Access Time, which is the time it takes to be able to access the data needed, from idle (silent) to get the data. Average access time is measured and displayed in milliseconds (ms). Access Time on the graph is shown as yellow dots where the smaller the value, the better the hard drive performance.
- Burst Rate, is the highest speed (in megabytes per second) at which data can be transferred from the drive interface (eg IDE, SATA or SCSI) to the Operating System. CPU Usage, shows how much time is used by the CPU (in %) to read data from the hard disk.
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- License: Freeware
- Developer: EFD Software
- Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11