Stellar Drive Monitor works, including in Win11, though the About Box still shows it's running in Windows 10, suggesting that it was already compatible, rather than being reworked to support Win11. Monitored in a Win11 64-bit VM, one thing that stood out was the app's size on disk -- about 100MB of the roughly 175MB total size comes from including ffmpeg, the code used for working with media like audio & video (?). In contrast, Hard Disk Sentinel [older versions given away occasionally] takes up less than 60MB, while the portable version of the free Crystal Disk Info comes in at just less than 13MB. That of course doesn't matter if you've got loads of free disk space [conventional hard disks just keep getting bigger], but there's a ton of devices out there using much smaller SSDs where every little bit counts.

Like Hard Disk Sentinel & Crystal Disk Info, Stellar Drive Monitor reads the S.M.A.R.T. data logged by drives internally. Also like the other two, it doesn't see networked drives. Crystal Disk Info is often updated to work with new brands of SSDs, as several have come on the market -- I have no way of knowing if the same is true for Stellar Drive Monitor. While S.M.A.R.T. is a *sort of* standard [there's no formal specs], the info logged & what it means varies with the make & model of the drive. wikipedia[.]org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Stellar Drive Monitor can also clone hard disk partitions [I'd still recommend Macrium Reflect Free or Paid], and can scan hard disks for errors, though Windows can already do that. Crystal Disk Info just shows the S.M.A.R.T. data, while Hard Disk Sentinel offers additional tests [tests on the giveaway versions are limited]. Stellar Drive Monitor adds the program's folder in Program Files\, 2 folders in ProgramData, and 2 Stellar Drive Monitor keys to the registry.

mike  –  3 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+11)

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