You never know when your computer hard drive will fail. They don’t come with a firm expiry date and you may find it hard to get an answer from any manufacturer on exactly how many year’s it’s good for.
It’s possible that your computer’s hard drive could run just great for more than a decade…or it could fail after just a few weeks without any warning signs.
Keeping an eye on your hard drive’s health is key in protecting it’s contents and there’s plenty of software around to do the job.
HDD Heath is a free application for Windows that uses the self analysis technology built into most hard drives to alert you to an impending failure.
This utility quietly runs in background and requires no input from users…but it doesn’t replace the need to make regular backups. You can download HDD Health at http://www.panterasoft.com/
