Description
  

"Maximum performance, constant monitoring and maintenance of your hard drives"
By SoftCns Editor:

How healthy is your hard drive?

The hard drive is one of the most important components of your computer. Even if a hard drive works flawlessly, it should still be regularly checked and maintained. This way an imminent hard drive failure can be detected early and might be prevented. If suddenly major problems occur or if your hard drive even completely fails, data loss might be the result.

Make sure you are prepared for such a situation. Ashampoo HDD Control 2 can notify you early so that your valuable data won’t become the victim of a hardware crash.
Now Ashampoo HDD Control 2 offers even more functions to check the status of your hard drive(s).

Use for example the S.M.A.R.T self-test or adjust the noise level and power management of your hard drive(s) (if supported). Furthermore you can restore accidentally deleted files and folders with
Ashampoo HDD Control 2. Get to know the all-rounder for monitoring, maintenance and defragmentation, and check the health status and performance of your hard drive(s) today.

Software Highlights

* Constant monitoring of your hard drive(s) (also for multi-user systems)
* Extended user interface with extensive hints and information on health, performance and temperature of the hard drive(s)
* Significantly extended support for external USB hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs)
* Support of S.M.A.R.T self-test (if supported by the hard drive)
* Adjustment of the noise level and power management of your hard drive(s) (if supported by the hard drive)
* Data recovery – recovering deleted files and folders
* Fully automatic, “proactive” defragmentation of the hard drive(s)
* Online retrieval of achieved benchmark results of your hard drive model(s)

Complete Monitoring

Ashampoo HDD Control 2 provides complete monitoring of your hard drive(s). The software supports not only all common IDE and serial ATA hard drive(s), but also provides improved support for external USB hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs).

The extended user interface gives an overview of the status of your hard drives’ health, performance and temperature. It also offers lots of technical information on supported features and their current status. Furthermore the software supports the S.M.A.R.T self-test to check for electric and mechanic problems of hard drives as well as adjustment of the noise level and the power management (if supported by the hard drive).

Constant monitoring enables the software to recognize a hard drive failure early. Let Ashampoo HDD Control 2 notify you of a possible failure, for example via e-mail, if you are not near your computer.

Benchmark
The benchmark function checks the performance of your hard drive(s) and provides a clear, graphic overview of the performance evaluation and information on data transfer rates and access times.

In order to get more information on the performance of your hard drive(s) you can compare your benchmark results with those of other users with the same hard drive model. Therefore a database retrieves online information on the on average achieved benchmark results of your hard drive model(s).

Careful Maintenance

Don’t you find it annoying to clean up your hard drive(s) regularly and to delete temporary or unused files in order to gain more disc space?
From now on Ashampoo HDD Control 2 will automatically do this job for you.
You won’t have to spend time on going through all your folders. With just a few clicks the software finds unused files and Internet traces on your hard drive(s). Those will then displayed in a list and can be erased, if necessary.

Instead of transferring files and folders into the computer’s recycle bin you can select and delete them directly in Ashampoo HDD Control 2. If you want to delete files and folders irretrievably, dragging them into the recycle bin will not be enough. Ashampoo HDD Control 2 now offers different erasing methods, to delete files and folders irretrievably from your hard drive(s).

Fully Automatic Defragmentation

A defragmentation is a way to rearrange the data on a hard drive to increase performance. If an element, for example a file on the hard drive, is erased, an empty space will occur there.

This empty space is filled again when a new element is saved on the hard drive. If the space isn’t big enough, the new element is broken up into fragments. These will then be placed into different places on the hard drive to fill empty spaces.

After some time the PC will need longer to read files, because, first of all, it has to assemble all fragments. Therefore it is very important to do a defragmentation regularly, in order to to maintain the hard drive’s performance.

Among the common methods Ashampoo HDD Control 2 uses the so-called "proactive" defragmentation, which makes use of your work breaks to analyze the level of disk fragmentation and do a fully automatic defragmentation, if necessary.

Data recovery for emergencies

It’s very annoying, if important data are deleted by mistake. With Ashampoo HDD Control 2 these files might not be lost forever.

The software offers to recover deleted files and folders with the integrated data recovery. Just select the relevant files and restore them with Ashampoo HDD Control 2.

Requirements

Operating System:
Windows® XP, Windows Vista® (32bit/64bit) and Windows® 7 (32bit/64bit)

Computer:
Any computer that runs one of the above operating systems at a reasonable speed.

Main Memory (RAM):
At least a minimum of 512 MB RAM should be available on your system.

Hard Drive Space:
45 MB hard disk space.

Other:
Full administrative rights are required to use the program.

Supported USB-Devices