Portable HDDExpert

Portable HDDExpert is a software tool that was developed specifically to aid individuals in accessing information pertaining to the health and performance of their computer.

Portability advantages

This is the portable counterpart of HDDExpert, which means that you can easily skip the installation process. In addition to that, the Windows registry and Start menu/screen are not going to be updated with new entries and there will be no leftovers after its removal from the drive.
It is also important to keep in mind that by placing the program files to an external data device, such as a pen drive, you can take Portable HDDExpert with you everywhere and run it on the fly, on any PC you can connect to.

Bring up S.M.A.R.T. attributes

This software utility reads the S.M.A.R.T. attributes of the hard drive and thus, it can display in the main window details pertaining to the count or errors that could not be recovered, number of complete start/stop cycles on the hard disk and quantity of uncorrected errors, such as ID, description, detected value, as well as normal value and threshold.

View temperature and export data

Moreover, you can view information pertaining to your hard drive, such as manufacturer, model, capacity, firmware, serial and cache size, as well as messages regarding temperature, overall health status, backup and spare.
It is possible to refresh this information manually or automatically every one minute or 10 seconds, while also all S.M.A.R.T. data can be saved to a custom location on the hard drive, as a TXT file.

Conclusion

To wrap it up, Portable HDDExpert is an efficient piece of software, dedicated to people that want to view more information about the health of their HDD. The interface is friendly to all user types, the CPU and memory usage is low at all times and the response time is quite good.