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HDD-Ping v2.0

A tool to "ping" hard drives to prevent spin-downs and head parking


This application is a Windows tray-only application that reads a random sector from selected hard drives in a given interval.

The only difference from the original version is the random sector read instead of writing and deleting a random file. Direct disk read requires admin privilege.


Functions:

  • Auto-discovery of drives on startup
  • Stores interval and selected drives in a serialized file
  • Re-enables settings of a found configuration file
  • Auto-fixes the settings by removing selected drives that are not available upon start
  • Includes three icons that change depending on the state
  • Those states are
    • 1: disabled (gray, no drive selected),
    • 2: writing (red for 5 secs when timer elapses)
    • 3: active-idle (green, waiting for a timer to elapse to read a random sector from selected drives)

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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