Hdd Thermometer and Hddlife Plugin For Google Desktop Software for Windows

HddLed Indicator
$20 - hddled.com

Software tool to monitor hard drives and logical disks activity. A small indicator on the screen will blink the same way as a hardware LED on a PC. A good replacement for the hardware HDD LED, especially when your pc case is not directly visible.
HddLed Indicator includes an All-in-One mode, where all drive activity is monitored on a single indicator. The program uses little system memory and CPU time. Additional modes provide indications using the keyboard ScrollLock LED and an icon in system notification area (tray).

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HDDlife Pro
$35 - BinarySense, Ltd.

HDDlife provides real-time monitoring of your hard drives. It immediately estimates the disk status and displays its health and temperature values. The tool smoothly works under Microsoft Windows Vista, supports USB hard disk monitoring and uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to make regular observations of disks health. It comes with data loss prevention, malfunction protection and power management features. HDDlife is an effective way to know about any potential failure of your hard drives to take measures in advance.

HDDlife is based upon S.M.A.R.T. technology and shows the information about all disk attributes in real time, including temperature. The advanced algorithms of HDDlife can notice the slightest change of the values, and, in case they exceed the threshold mark, the utility will immediately alert you about it. In the preventative mode, the program can run regular checkups to let you know about any difference in disk performance and consistency. Also you can send the HDD readwrite indicator to the system tray to keep this information in view all the time.

Another power feature of HDDlife allows monitoring the status of USB hard disks just like any other ordinary hard drive. The utility currently supports external hard drives from IO-Data and Western Digital Passport. You will certainly appreciate that HDDlife lets you manually set the power consumption of your hard drives. It can reduce heat emission, improving the temperature status and allowing you to prolong the lifespan of a notebook.

The support of Microsoft Window Vista means that HDDlife satisfies the demands set forth by Microsoft in "Works on Windows Vista" certificate. Vista?s users will receive the fully-fledged program which will work smoothly and easily. What?s more, the improved registration process of HDDlife provides users with the most convenient registration experience. Use HDDlife to safeguard yourself against the loss of information stored on your hard drive.

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HDD Temperature Enterprise
$190 - PalickSoft

HDD Temperature Enterprise is hard-drive temperature monitoring software for corporate networks and small businesses. This rather straightforward program is a must have utility for any company that is determined to have a ZERO risk of losing their data because of hard-drive overheating. There are many reasons why hard-drives get damaged, and overheating is probably the most common one. If you remember your physics lessons well, you know that spinning something at several thousand revolutions per minute causes heat, plenty of heat. That is why servers and computers have coolers, fans and other gadgets that prevent overheating. But as fans get plugged, coolers stop working, or too many hard-drives get added - the risk of "frying" your HDDs and losing data increases drastically. HDD Temperature Enterprise uses S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs to monitor temperature of hard-drives and gives system administrators real-time online access to this critical data in any location. When hard-drive temperature goes up, the program sends e-mail alerts or shuts down HDD in danger to prevent overheating. HDD Temperature Enterprise is created specially for small and large companies that have many computers and need to monitor multiple hard-drives. This "beefed up" version has several features that the regular version does not. For example, it can monitor several HDDs simultaneously and can send warning messages to a specified e-mail address or certain computer in the network. Importantly, it can automatically force overheated system to hibernate, protecting both HDD and the unsaved data. You also can run this application as network service, making this tool is ideal for corporate networks. The client module is deployed over the network with Windows installer (.msi) and runs invisibly in the background.
Get your copy now and stop sweating about your hard-drive temperature.

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HDDlife plugin for Google Desktop
$0 - BinarySense, Ltd.

Not long time ago, Google presented their Google Desktop system. This freeware package builds a searchable index of your local files and allows you to search through them as you normally search for pages in Google. Google Desktop comes with a great sidebar. This floating panel includes such magnificent utilities as a headline news viewer, RSS and Atom monitor, Gmail and Outlook new mail notifiers, and more. Millions of users fell in love with it from the very first moment. So did I.

But, in fact, it was just the beginning. The real value of the Google sidebar is in its pluggable architecture. Software developers started to make even more tools that you can integrate into your Google Desktop. Let me tell you about one of these plug-ins...

Most Google Desktop tools are involved with the monitoring of on-line resources. However, you shouldn't forget about your own PC's health. Without a working hard drive, all remote resources will be totally inaccessible. HDDLife is a freeware plugin for Google Desktop that constantly monitors a vast range of your hard drive's parameters. By collecting statistical data from your drive operations, HDDLife can forecast hardware problems. It will alert you when your drive is close to a crash. This allows you to prevent the loss of your precious files. You will always know your drive's condition by taking a quick look at Google Sidebar. HDDLife draws green, yellow and red icons which indicate the condition of your drives at the moment.

Did you know that hard drives are quite sensitive to heat? A rise in temperature by 10 degrees may halve your drive's life expectancy. HDDLife helps you quickly diagnose heating problems and prolong the life of your hardware. In addition to the status icons for each drive shown on Google Sidebar, you will also see your hard drive temperature.

Did I mention that it is free? Yes, simply download and use it.

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HDDlife for Notebooks
$50 - BinarySense, Ltd.

HDDlife Notebook Edition monitors hard drive health and performance. It has been developed with the peculiarities of portable computers taken into account. Unique technologies make data information on the state of the hard drive highly precise and available at any moment. The JustNow instant measurement technology reflects the state of the hard drive as a percentage of a new drive. You can see this value right after you start the program. Another unique technology called AnywhereView makes drive performance indicators available from dialog boxes of any software application. These technologies provide clear and available information about the performance of the hard drive.

When HDDlife controls the work of the hard drive, it informs you about hard drive overheating or a decrease in its performance. It regularly measures the temperature and performance of the hard drive at the specified intervals. The state of the drive is displayed in the tray as a percentage of health and performance together with its temperature. The results of each check are displayed as a brief notification. Data about available disk space is also displayed there. Additional data about the drive, such as its total working time and structure, is available in the program window. HDDlife always keeps you informed about the state of the hard drive.

Besides displaying the current state of the drive, the program also gives recommendations on how to improve its work, when to back up data and prepare a replacement. In critical cases, it allows the user to automatically switch the system to the standby mode or to the power saving mode. It protects the system when it runs in the autonomous mode. When you control the system remotely, HDDlife can send messages with the results of the last check via the network or by e-mail. It will run in the background mode, regularly check the state of the hard drive and send reports to a remote computer.

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HDD Observer
$24.95 - Daoisoft

HDD Observer is a monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives.
HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them:
- Monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature
- Monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon
- Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation
- Defragment file system and registry
- Automatically and real-time find and remove un-needed files and registry values
- Windows XP/2003/Vista compatible
- Low memory usage
HDD Observer is not only a high technologic product - it is one of the most intelligent soft for hard drives monitoring. And this is because it has some unique technologies implemented by us especially for this program. One of them is SmartBehavior - a very complex behavior technology implemented in monitoring tools.
For example, if HDD temperature is near its critical value then HDD Observer begins to check it more frequently to exactly detect the time when the temperature will reach it's critical value. Evident - if critical value is reached, then HDD Observer will check HDDs with a lower frequency to release any system resources.
Another interesting feature is 'System Fragmentation Monitoring':
HDD Observer begins fragmentation check only when computer is idle, and all system resources are free.
In this case HDD Observer will check for fragmentation until will finish or the user will need any system resources. After check it informs the user about fragmentation level and can even defragment HD using its build-in defragmentation tools.
These and many other features make HDD Observer the most advanced HDD troubles monitoring and repairing program.

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