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What's a good free drive monitor for my hard drive? I already have Intel SSD toolbox for my one SSD but I'm hoping to find a similar program for my other HDD.

Would it create a conflict if I have two drive monitor installed?
 
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I can't see why there would be any problem, but I can't say for sure. I run HD Sentinel, which starts automatically at Windows boot up, and Samsung's "Magician" and I have never had any problems.

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What make is the hard drive? Most manufacturers have their own monitoring and maintenance tools that are free from their support pages.

The monitoring softwares shouldn't conflict, but I would avoid using optimization tools from one manufacturer for another manufacturers drive.
 
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I have one SSD (the intel), and two more HDD. One HDD is toshiba and the other one is western digital.
hmm sounds like it would be problem some keeping three different monitor on my computer and make sure I don't accidentally use the wrong optimization tool on the wrong drive..
 
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The Manufacturer specific programs will usually not allow optimization features to function on other manufacturers drives, so that's usually safe, just make sure if that is the route you take to make sure you aren't using multiple softwares on the same drive for those functions, the monitoring protocols the drives use are fairly standard I believe with the S.M.A.R.T protocols etc.
 
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http://www.hdsentinel.com/
 
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that looks good. It's okay if I have the intel toolbox and hDsentinel installed? intel toolbox is also suppose to have firmware update for my SSDas well so I don't want to uninstall it..
 
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I can't see why there would be any problem, but I can't say for sure. I run HD Sentinel, which starts automatically at Windows boot up, and Samsung's "Magician" and I have never had any problems.

In my experience, the automatic start up with HD Sentinel is a really great feature. It checks the HDD/SSD SMART Data for you and notifies you of any problem areas.

I think that HD Sentinel works on any HDD/SSD regardless of manufacturer. I have a 128 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD and a Seagate 1 TB HDD and HD Sentinel works great on both.

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