Check HDD to Sleep (HddSleep)

Hard drives, be it HDDs or SSDs, come equipped with a special, sleep mode, which ensures that power saving occurs during idle states and it usually works by either slowing down or completely stopping the disks’ rotation, either temporarily or permanently. This basically sets the hard drives into a sort of standby mode. However, there are numerous times when you wouldn’t want that to happen. This is where Check HDD to Sleep comes into play, addressing such requirements and allowing you to easily tell if your hard drives have entered sleep mode, and, if needed awake them.

Right from the start, it was quickly apparent that the developer has thought of a very simple design, which incorporates only basic functionality. To that end, we feel that this time things could have gone too far on the minimalist side.

Nevertheless, due to its intended purpose and scope, the available features and straightforward operation can be the right choice if you’re one who wishes to avoid complexity and wants only the simplest solution delivered.

When it comes to the flipside, Check HDD to Sleep does come with some caveats built-in, or we can better consider them as subjects of improvement in future iterations. For instance, it would have been beneficial for it to also come equipped with some form of visualization for all the available partitions.

This is just one example that we could think of, but there are other numerous potential improvements in the design and functionality.

Give Check HDD to Sleep a try, if you need a basic tool for checking if your hard drives are in sleep mode, but do not expect the latest in terms of design or functionality.