Hard Disk Monitoring

Here are some results I've collected over the last couple of weeks concerning the HDSP surface refresh problem I've detailed in this thread: 1. I have two Hitachi enterprise drives: an older 1TB drive and a newer 2TB drive. In HDSP, a read test shows 83 MB/s for the old drive and 130 MB/s for the ne...

The data rate reported by HDSP during a surface refresh is oddly slow, which is why the refresh is taking so long: starting at 8-9 MB/s and falling to 5-6 MB/s near the end of the 60+ hour refresh. This is significantly slower than the data rate reported by HDSP when refreshing my older, 1TB, F: dri...

I sent the test report. You should have it. I continue to look for possible software conflicts that arise when the G drive (the 2TB drive) is locked for long periods of time. I turned off some activities that Norton Internet Security was set to do and reran a G drive HDSP surface refresh. As before,...

UPDATE: I completely disabled PerfectDisk (in particular, its OptiWrite feature and all automatic defrags). Unfortunately, 46 hours in to a 65 hour HDSP surface refresh of my 2 TB drive, the problem occurred exactly as described before. Not sure what else to try. HDSP sure is conflicting with someth...

When I go to "Send Test Report", it's not clear what is being sent other than the Comments typed in to the dialog box. Does something else get attached? The report you get from the Report menu? My comments on locking drives were simply meant to convey that Windows and its swap file are bot...

I recently purchased Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 4.5 to perform surface refreshes of my hard drives. The refreshes have all completed, but on 2 of my 4 drives, those that are my larger drives (1TB and 2TB), Windows 8 would start seriously struggling after some time during the HDSP refresh process. For ex...