HDDlife for Notebooks is a monitor of general state and health for notebook hard drives. It features exclusive monitoring technologies and understands the specifics of portable hardware. The program informs the user of pending problems in hard drive work and suggests a solution.
The release of HDDlife for Notebooks is announced today in the headquarters of BinarySense Ltd. For many users it comes as a relief knowing that now HDDlife, one of the best hard drive monitoring utilities on the market, extends its protection to their notebooks too. When HDDlife watches over a system, users can be sure that no overheating or drop in productivity escape their attention. The program checks hard drive health, temperature and evaluates performance at user-set intervals. The indicators of health status, performance and temperature manifest themselves in the system tray. In the main program window users can also find more specific information on their hard drive, such as overall work time and partition structure. HDDlife will keep you informed about the state of you portable hardware at all times.
"Accurate and informative indicators are at the heart of efficient monitoring," says Alexander Ivanov, CEO of BinarySense Ltd. "Users should know at a glance when their hard drive malfunctions to have time for backup and replacement. What is the use of an indicator, if the user can make neither head nor tail of it? Experience and studies made us limit hard drive indicators to just three key ones: health status, performance, and temperature. We applied a unique technology of instant drive checkup which we called JustNowT. It shows the state of their drive as a per cent to its original state immediately after the start of the program. To make indicators informative yet unobtrusive, HDDlife employs coloured diagrams and XP-style shields. Another proprietary technology, AnywhereView T, makes sure that the small diagram shows over the hard drive icon in every application across the user system. Both this technologies ensure accurate and clear indication of the drive's current state."
Besides indicating the drive's current state, the program suggests actions that can help solve the problem of drive performance. In severe cases it can advice immediate backup and drive replacement. The program can switch the system to a standby or hibernation mode when the drive overheats. The feature comes in handy when the system works autonomously. When the system is under remote supervision, HDDlife can send a network notification or an e-mail with a report on disk's current status. The program will work in the background, run regular checkups and send the reports to a remote computer. HDDlife is a proactive solution that prolongs the life of you hard drive and protects your valuable data against loss.
HDDlife v2.8 for Notebooks Features at a Glance . Indication of HDD health, performance, temperature, lifespan and free space; . Highly customizable alert system (pop-up notifications, emails and network messages); . Noise reduction for hard drives with AAM support; . Proprietary technologies for drive checkups and indication (JustNow!T and AnywhereViewT); . User-set check points for temperature, lifespan and free space; . Automated stand-by or hibernation at critical points; . Intuitive user interface.
Pricing and Availability HDDlife v2.8 for Notebooks runs under Windows 2000/2003/XP and costs $49.90 (USD) for a single user license. Upgrade from usual HDDlife Pro is available for $14.95 (USD). A fully-functional evaluation version is available at http://www.hddlife.com/HDDlife_Notebooks.exe.