The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users.HDD Guardian Features:automatic translation (if language files do not exist, it automatically loads English). Available languages: English, Italian, and Hungarian;easy device overview, with temperature, last test result, overall health and bad sectors; displays an optional icon into the tray area for each fixed device;HDD Guardian tray icons change shield color if a device is failing;automatically export smartctl output into a specified folder;monitor virtual devices loaded from a shared smartctl output;displays device identity information;perform self-test and displays their results;allow enabling/disabling S.M.A.R.T., automatic offline data collection (an automatic test performed by device every four hours) and autosave of vendor-specific attributes;displays attributes, information, and graphs;displays device capabilities;displays device error log;allows you to set device-specific tolerance, attribute format and firmware debugs;allows you to set warning behaviour;allows you to monitor SSDs life percentage;allows you to monitor external devices (requires administrative rights).