HD Tach is an application that can truly help you get in touch with your hard disk, performing a series of tests and displaying a lot of useful details in a very professional way.

There’s nothing too complicated about HD Tach because the app has been designed to target beginners and experienced users alike, so you won’t waste your time getting used to its interface.

The main window lets you choose the storage device you wish to test, but also access a comprehensive database of graphs designed based on information collected after similar tests on other devices.

There are two testing modes available, quick and long, with the first one taking less than a minute.

Both of them work pretty fast though, but we’d recommend you to close all the other running programs, just to make sure the results you’ll see at the end of the test won’t be altered by unnecessary use of resources.

And since we’re talking about the results, the information is displayed in an innovative way, again with graphs and detailed stats about the tests.

Both the sequential read speed and the read speed results are displayed with the help of graphs, but the user also has the option to compare his numbers with other devices, just to check there’s nothing wrong with his hard disks and see if there’s room for improvements.

Overall, the only sad thing about HD Tach is the fact that it only works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Sure, it could be easily loaded with the help of Windows 7’s compatibility tools, but it’s far better to wait for genuine support for this version of Microsoft’s operating system.