Alternatives to HD Tune
Benchmarks storage drives and scans them for errors and S.M.A.R.T. warnings. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
HD Tune
Benchmarks storage drives and scans them for errors and S.M.A.R.T. warnings.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as HD Tune.
Hard Disk Sentinel
Drive health, temperature and lifetime monitoring for HDDs and SSDs.
Hard Disk Sentinel reports per-drive health and estimated lifetime, sees drives behind USB enclosures and RAID controllers, and runs on Linux too, but lacks transfer-rate benchmarks.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
HWiNFO
The deepest hardware report and sensor monitor on Windows, free for personal use.
AIDA64 Extreme
Detailed hardware identification, sensor monitoring and benchmarking for Windows.
HWMonitor
A Windows hardware monitor that reads voltages, temperatures, fan speeds, power and clock sensors.
Speccy
Quick summary of a Windows PC's hardware and temperatures.
