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		<title>Hard Drive Diagnostic Tool Crystal Disk Info</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crystal Disk Info has been covered before at Ghacks as a tool to display the hours a hard drive has been running. The hard drive diagnostic tool can do a lot more than that however but more about that later in the article. The software program is a portable application that can immediately displays information [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/29/how-many-hours-have-your-hard-disks-been-running/">Crystal Disk Info</a> has been covered before at Ghacks as a tool to display the hours a hard drive has been running. The hard drive diagnostic tool can do a lot more than that however but more about that later in the article. The software program is a portable application that can immediately displays information about connected hard drives (IDE, SATA and SSD) like the current transfer mode, the power on count and the power on hours.</p>
<p>Other important information include the hard drive&#8217;s temperature, the health status, the drive letters and supported features. The tool is displaying the S.M.A.R.T. attributes in a list in the main interface. The information are updated regularly. The default value is every 10 minutes but it can be changed from 1 to 60 minutes. It obviously can also be disabled.</p>
<p><span id="more-8506"></span><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/crystal_disk_info-500x405.jpg" alt="crystal disk info" title="crystal disk info" width="500" height="405" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8507" /></p>
<p>An interesting feature of <a href="http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/index.html">Crystal Disk Info</a> is the ability to control change the Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) and Advanced Power Management (APM) settings of hard drives that support the feature</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/automatic_acoustic_management.jpg" alt="" title="automatic acoustic management" width="410" height="334" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8508" /></p>
<p>Sliders can be used to change the Automatic Acoustic Management between Silent and Performance and the Advanced Power Management between Minimal Power and Performance.</p>
<p>The download is currently not working on the software developer&#8217;s homepage. All major download portals (<a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5931.html">Majorgeeks</a>) host the software on the other hand.</p>
<p>The software is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.</p>

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