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)