HDDScan S.M.A.R.T Report problems

[Katlan]

Lately I have had some crashes to desktops while playing games, and I have noticed some stuttering in applications. So I downloaded HDDscan and I can run a S.M.A.R.T report on 1/3 of my HD's. It won't pull up any info on the SSD or my other regular HD. Is there a reason for this, or are these drives just that busted?

Thank you!

[Aldon]

There's literally a million reasons you might not be getting correct/any S.M.A.R.T. reports from your hard drives, from the hard drives themselves, to the motherboard, all the way up to software implementation. SMART was a good idea, but the specification is too weak and your odds of getting any proper data are crap.

I would recommend running software like SPINRITE (you'll need to burn an imaged CD/DVD or a bootable USB) to get some data on your hard drive's condition.

Usually slowly failing HDDs would not cause something like crashing to desktop, though