Ashampoo HDD Control 0.90 Beta

Major Features:

1. Monitoring
   • Supports all commonly available IDE and serial ATA drives
   • Provides the user with all important facts and information, including the drive serial number, firmware version, cache size, number of configured partitions, drive space and current temperature.
   • Provides information on the health and performance of the hard drive shown in percentages.
2. Maintenance
   • Help you locate and delete unwanted and unneeded files accumulate on your hard drive
   • Empties the cache, clears the browsing history and erases cookies from the Internet browser.
3. Basic functions:
   • Information on serial numbers, firmware, cache, bad sectors on your hard disk(s)
   • Background guard continuously monitors status, performance and temperature
   • In-depth explanations and information on context-sensitive help
   • Displays all current SMART files with detailed explanations
   • Able to export reports for support purposes
   • Fully configurable temperature monitoring available in Celsius and Fahrenheit
   • Option to automatically save all incidents in separate log
   • Simple controls and GUI including color schemes
   • Easy and automatic software updates
4. Cleanup:
   • Powerful, high-speed disk clean-up
   • Objects found can be configured and managed in shortcut menus
   • Objects found can be managed using intelligent filter mechanisms
   • New exception rules can be created manually or automatically
   • Supports the latest generation of browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera)
   • Wide range of options to customize configuration to meet user requirements
   • High level of security thanks to years of experience and advanced cookie management
5. Defragmentation:
   • High-quality defragmentation performed to latest standards
   • Fully automatic ‘proactive’ defragmentation runs in background
   • Defragmentation algorithm with minimum impact on system performance
   • Range of defragmentation options (fast, normal, intelligent)
   • Parallel defragmentation of all drives and/or partitions
   • Comprehensive configuration and customization options
   • Monitoring
   • Self-monitoring, analysis, status reports on imminent failures
   • Evaluation of health and performance status of your hard drive(s)
   • Range of evaluation criteria available for customized configuration
   • Email alerts to notify user that condition of hard drive(s) has deteriorated and failure is imminent
   • Direct link to Windows event log
6. S.M.A.R.T. technology provides information on (if supported by drive):
   • Number of hours in operation and start-up processes
   • Error rate during positioning
   • Start/stop processes of drive heads
   • Number of parking sequences for write/read units
   • Disk calibration attempts
   • Reallocations (in event of bad disk sectors)
   • Controller hard drive transfer rate (defective cable)
   • And many more
   • Temperature display including early warning of overheating
7. Benchmark:
   • Identifies all values required to evaluate the performance of your hard drive(s)
   • Clearly structured GUI for performance evaluation (benchmark)
   • Online database link for direct comparison of your results with other systems
8. Clear presentation of information and values on:
   • Min./max. data transfer rates
   • Average data transfer rates
   • Access times

Requirements:

• At least a minimum of 128 MB RAM should be available on your system.
• 10 MB hard disk space.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is required.
• Full administrative rights are required to use the program.