What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

From what I can tell SMART analysis, as supplied by testing tools comes in 2 forms, simple and complex. "Simple" reporting seems to be used on tools like Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter.

QUESTION: What should I be doing to monitor my hard drive? ANSWER: Of all the components that make up your computer, the hard drive should be considered the most important to maintain and monitor ...

If you wanna change OS's then you should format and re-partition, because OS's optimise the existing partition slightly for there benfit. So if you delete your existinf partition then create a new one ...

This simple tool could be a life-saver. Or, at least, a video-saver. Image: Other World Computing/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can record ProRes video at 4K and 60 fps, but ...