{"id":20370,"date":"2024-01-05T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=20370"},"modified":"2024-01-05T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:42:38","slug":"check-hard-drive-health-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/check-hard-drive-health-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check Hard Drive Health in Windows 11 with Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is my hard drive still healthy? When should I replace my SSD? If there is a way to predict when a hard drive is about to die, we can take preventative actions before disk failure. Luckily, Windows 11 comes with a built-in feature to monitor the hard drive health, so you can get an estimated remaining life and temperature about your hard drive. Currently, this option is only available for NVM SSD. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll walk you through the steps of checking hard drive health in Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Check Hard Drive Health in Windows 11 with Ease<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/common-ways-to-open-settings-app-in-windows-11\/\">Open the Settings app<\/a>. Choose the <strong>System<\/strong> category in the left-side pane and then click <strong>Storage<\/strong> on the right.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/storage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/storage.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/storage-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Under the &#8220;Storage management&#8221; section, click the &#8220;<strong>Advanced storage settings<\/strong>&#8221; option.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/advanced-storage-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/advanced-storage-settings.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/advanced-storage-settings-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;<strong>Disks &#038; volumes<\/strong>&#8221; setting underneath.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/disks-volumes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/disks-volumes.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/disks-volumes-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click the <strong>Properties<\/strong> button next to your hard drive, not volumes.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/disk-properties.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/disk-properties.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/disk-properties-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the &#8220;<strong>Drive health<\/strong>&#8221; section, you can see the current temperature and estimated remaining life about your disk.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/drive-health.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/drive-health.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/drive-health-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> \tIt might be able to help you catch a failing drive. You&#8217;ll get a warning when significant media-related errors or an internal error to the NVM subsystem is detected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hard-drive-is-about-to-fail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"322\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hard-drive-is-about-to-fail.png 384w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hard-drive-is-about-to-fail-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how you can use the built-in feature in Windows 11 to check your hard drive status. However, it doesn&#8217;t work with SATA SSD or hard disk drives (HDD). If you need to perform a health check for USB, Intel RAID and NVMe, the freeware <a href=\"https:\/\/crystalmark.info\/en\/software\/crystaldiskinfo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CrystalDiskInfo<\/a> might be your good choice.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is my hard drive still healthy? When should I replace my SSD? If there is a way to predict when a hard drive is about to die, we can take preventative actions before disk failure. 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