HD Tune Pro is a hard disk / SSD utility.
Questions tagged [hd-tune]
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Understanding the wide variation in reported performance of a hard disk drive in a USB 3.0 enclosure as shown HD Tune
I have a USB 3.0 external HDD enclosure, and I installed an old HDD from my desktop into it. Naturally I’d like to see how it will perform, so I have HD Tune running a benchmark. However the graph produced looks very strange to me.
Before, the…
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HD Tune shows calibration error-- should I replace the drive?
I just bought a brand new Seagate 1TB "Backup Plus" external USB 3.0 drive, and in running some diagnostics, HD Tune is showing a "calibration retry count" warning as shown in this screen grab.
Every other test I've run on the drive seems to…
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What is the difference between a quick scan and a full scan in HD Tune Pro?
A quick scan didn't find any error on my hard drive, whereas a full scan did. What is the difference between a quick scan and a full scan in HD Tune Pro? I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate and HD Tune Pro 3.50.
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Low amount of HDD Minimum transfer rate
Recently i used HDTune app to measure my HDD info.
I've noticed i get a huge drop and i'm having low amount of "minimum HDD transfer".
Is it normal? Or im just getting too sensitive afterwards of installing W10?
I ran 3 different tests. and no,…
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Is it safe to check hard drives for SMART errors while playing HD video on VLC?
Is it safe to check hard drives for SMART errors while playing HD video on VLC?
I know it takes hours to scan a hard-disk of whatever size it is, I don't want to wait until its done.
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Why do HD Tune benchmark spikes correlate with used space?
So I got this WD Elements 4TB external drive, that was an Amazon Warehouse Deal (I wanted a new one, this used one arrived, they already refunded). I decided to give it a go, but it has its problems, such as randomly lowered speeds on the area…
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Is my hard disk faulty/dying?
This question was motivated by my issue where coming back from hibernate takes a long time. i.e even after the OS loads up etc, there is a lot of disk activity and the PC is generally laggy and slow for a while (like 5-10 min!). I have a greedy…
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What can I do for hard disk error?
It's a follow-up question for this question.
Dropped external HDD
Using HD Tune, I learned that my external HDD has some errors on it.
Then what can/should I do?
Is there any way that I can 'flag' the damaged part so that this part is not used any…
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