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About Crucial Storage Executive
Crucial Storage Executive is the official tool for Crucial SSDs, made by Crucial's parent company Micron. It shows how much storage is in use and reports drive health. It also installs firmware updates and offers settings for tuning drive performance.
It is intended for Crucial drives, so owners of other brands should use their own manufacturer's utility. It suits people with a Crucial SSD who want a simple way to keep firmware current and watch the drive's condition.
Strengths
- Official firmware updates for Crucial SSDs
- Shows drive health and storage used
- Performance tuning options
Limitations
- Meant for Crucial drives only
- Closed source under Micron's license terms
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree download from Crucial for owners of its SSDs.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Micron Technology
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Owners of Crucial SSDs who want firmware updates and health monitoring
- Categories
- Disk tools, System monitoring
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Crucial Storage Executive
Compare allSoftware that can replace Crucial Storage Executive for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
CrystalDiskInfo
Reads the health data your drives already record and tells you plainly whether one is dying.
CrystalDiskInfo is MIT-licensed and reads health data from drives of any brand with tray alerts, but it cannot install firmware updates on Crucial SSDs.
smartmontools
Reads the SMART health data built into disks and runs self-tests, giving advance warning before a drive fails.
smartmontools is an open-source command-line tool for Windows, macOS and Linux that monitors SMART health on a schedule, but it offers no Crucial firmware updates or tuning.
GSmartControl
A graphical interface for smartctl that shows the health of hard drives and SSDs.
GSmartControl gives a graphical view of SMART health and self-tests on Windows and Linux for any drive, but it depends on smartmontools and lacks firmware updates.
HDDScan
A free Windows utility for testing hard drives and SSDs, reading SMART data and running surface tests.
HDDScan is a free Windows tool that shows SMART attributes and runs surface tests on drives of many brands, without Crucial firmware updates or performance tuning.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Samsung Magician
Samsung's management app for its consumer SSDs, covering firmware updates, health checks, benchmarks and secure erase.
Kingston SSD Manager
Kingston's utility for monitoring SSD health, updating firmware and securely erasing Kingston drives.
SeaTools
Seagate's free diagnostic tool for checking the health of hard drives and SSDs.
CrystalDiskMark
The standard Windows disk benchmark, measuring sequential and random read and write speeds in a few clicks.
AS SSD Benchmark
Quick Windows benchmark tool for testing SSD read and write speeds.
