From what I can tell SMART analysis, as supplied by testing tools comes in 2 forms, simple and complex. "Simple" reporting seems to be used on tools like Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter.

When you boot your HP computer and it fails to boot and throws the SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, or 3F2, then the fixes we have presented ...

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

I have a late 2006 (plastic) iMac. It started acting up a little so I ran Scannerz w/FSE on the drive to scan it, and sure enough it found bad sectors plus a fair number of sectors that are damaged ...

First, we copy a folder with 2GB worth of files to the hard drive that’s connected to our testing computer and record the length of time it takes for the drive to write the data. Then, we rename the ...

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The error message Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive indicates a failing hard drive. Therefore, you need to replace it. However, in some cases ...

Flexstar's TaaS program provides the proof that manufacturers and their customers require that their products have been thoroughly tested with a third-party guarantee of quality, including ...

OWC’s Gemini, dual-bay Thunderbolt 3 HDD/SSD enclosure trounced the G-RAID Mirror in our testing, making it the fastest HDD RAID enclosure we’ve tested. While the Gemini will accept 2.5-inch SATA SSDs ...