One of the biggest issues with hard drives, of all capacities and formats is that they will eventually fail, no matter if they are solid state or mechanical. The ability to monitor, report and track hard-disk health is in-built, with features like S.M.A.R.T., that will prematurely report hardware failures.
Crystal Disk Info is a lightweight application that will display several key parameters of drives health, such as total reads and writes, turn on count, on time, partitions, error states and much, much more.
Its free for both for private and commercial users, available for installation and portable use. It can be downloaded here.
