The hard drive is the weakest link in a computer. While the HDD (hard disk drive, hard drive) is functioning properly, no one remembers about it. Problems with speed, free space or stability are just starting — they immediately remember about the maintenance of the drive.
Defragmentation, cleaning and partitioning, diagnostics is a complex issue. To solve the last problem, the CrystalDiskInfo application was written. You will learn about its capabilities, features and disadvantages of the Crystal Disk program from the publication. Here you can download the utility in English for Windows 10 — XP of any bit 32/64.
Why you need CrystalDiskInfo
An application from a Japanese developer for diagnosing digital drives: HDD and SSD. It does not work with flash drives, but it does support portable hard drives. Utility for Windows
reads S.M.A.R.T. — information obtained through the methodology of analysis and self-control of the disk.
The utility evaluates the technical condition of the memory, monitors the temperature of the device, collects technical, operational information and works with sectors. The first include the manufacturer, volume, number of partitions, serial number, connection interface. To the second — the number of inclusions, the accumulated time.
The utility will show the state of the drive when using games (temperature, read speed).
Advantages
- support of design themes;
- recognizes almost all HDDs, SSDs;
- there is a portable version;
- free download with source code;
- change of design by means of design skins;
- multilingual interface;
- switching between two or more disks;
- graphing.
Disadvantages
- Japanese style design themes;
- S.M.A.R.T. parameter values cannot be copied to the clipboard.
- false positives of antiviruses.
Crystal Disk saves reports in textual and graphical form, copies the information of interest to the clipboard. At the service of advanced users and experts ~ 30 graphs of physical and normalized values of hard drives. Fans of customization will appreciate the support for themes, the function of changing the font, window scale.
System requirements
| Developer | Noriyuki Miyazaki (Japan) |
| Operating system | Windows XP – 10
Windows Server 2003 – 2019 |
| OS architecture | x86 (32 bit), x64 |
| CPU | 1.1 GHz |
| Video card | 64 MB |
| Free disk space | 160 MB |
CrystalDiskInfo occupies ~90 MB, the rest is themes. If not needed, remove the Themes directory from the CdiResource folder.
Possibilities
Access to Crystal Disk functions is provided through the main menu, control is partially duplicated by hot keys.
Among the features of the application, we note:
- Tracks the health rating of the hdd/ssd drive: «Good», «Alarm», «Bad».
- Storage temperature monitoring. Warning when the temperature exceeds the specified value.
- Reading the model and specifications of discs.
- Check speed of SSD and HDD.
- Displays many indicators: up to 30 S.M.A.R.T parameters, number, labels and volume of logical partitions.
- Export HDD and error reports.
- Copying information about disk sectors to the buffer.
- Control how often information is updated for each device.
- The agent in the notification area is an icon with the current HDD temperature.
- Advanced drive search.
- Change of design.
- HDD Noise Control.
- Determine the drive driver version.
- Fast switching between computer disks.
- Recognition of solid state and hard drives: internal, external (USB).
- Plotting three dozen parameters of digital storage.
- Changing the chart scale with the mouse wheel while holding Ctrl.
- Assigning some functions to hot keys.
General disk health diagnostics
Information about the wear tracking drive has been moved to the main window. Displayed automatically after application launch: S.M.A.R.T. information, temperature sensor value, technical status based on bad sectors.
Through the menu item «File» reports are created, through «Edit» — options for copying data to the buffer are changed. The «Service» item provides access to the CrystalDiskInfo settings, in the «View» — the design of the program is changed. For more details about the performance and diagnostics of the HDD, see the material.
Download CrystalDiskInfo for free
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All utility versions are available in Russian for Windows 32/64 bit. Download the program in a format convenient for you. There are several options to choose from: requiring installation (Install), portable without installation (Portable), torrent file (Torrent).
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Portable version of the utility
In terms of functionality, CrystalDiskInfo Portable does not differ from the installed program, but it has a number of advantages over it. Most importantly, there is no installation required.
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Download the program via torrent
Download the torrent file and download the CrystalDisk program through your torrent client.
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Anime version of the program
Download versions of the program with anime design. Many CrystalDisk skins will please fans of Japanese cartoons. Functional differences, except for the style of skins, were not found in these versions.
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Installation
Consider how to install CrystalDiskInfo using Windows 10 64 bit as an example.
- Run the resulting file. If you downloaded .zip, then unpack it first.
- When prompted by UAC or security, give the green light to the application.
- Read the terms and conditions and accept them.
- Select the installation folder or leave the default and click «Next».
- Click Install.
- Done, installation completed.
- Click Finish. You can leave the launch box unchecked.
Program functionality
The disk diagnostics utility is represented by a single window (the main one) and a couple of additional ones. After loading the interface, you will see the following information:
Questions and answers
If the technical condition turns yellow, does this mean that you need to buy a new disk?
How long on average can a disk last in the red state?