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Unfortunately, as soon as you will be unable to access SOME of your files due to mechanical failure of your hard drive you have only very little time to react and save the most precious data you have not backed up to another physicalįortunately, almost all modern hard drives support a technology called S.M.A.R.T. If you're lucky, you will notice error messages while accessing your files and will be able to save some of your data to anotherĭrive before the failing one stops working completely.

Many if not all computer users experience data loss due to hard drive failure at one point in time. Since the first release of Argus Monitor in 2009 the program offers functionality to monitor the status of HDDs and since there avaiability in the mass market also of those of SSDs. SMART monitoring of hard disk drives and SSDs Value of up to 6 independent controllers for every fan channel).ĭownload Argus Monitor now! Try out the best fan control software for up to 30 days with full functionality. As an advanced feature a combination of up to four of the above mentioned temperature values can be selected (more precisely the maximum control Temperatures also the average temperature over a (configurable) time span is available. The speed of the fans can either be set to a fixed value or controlled with a characteristic curve depending on all available temperature sources.Īll available temparature sources can be used as input for the fan controller, namely CPU temperature, GPU temperature, hard drive/SSD temperatures or temperature readings of all temperature sensors on the mainboard. The program can control most commercially available monitoring chips from Nuvoton, ITE, Winbond, Fintek and SMSC, which are installed on the most widely used motherboards from Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte and MSI. Software Fan Speed Control under Windows for Mainboard FansĪ prerequisite for using the fan control features of Argus Monitor is a supported SuperIO monitoring, a modern AMD/Nvidia GPU or a supported AIO cooling solution.

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