About Clear Disk Info
Clear Disk Info is a statistics and information utility for storage devices such as SSD, HDD and FLASH drives. This tools supports S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and USB connected devices. Unlike other tools of the same kind, Clear Disk Info displays the information in a human friendly way.
The latest Clear Disk Info version is 4.4.1.0.
Change log
Version 4.4.1 (released in August 2 2025)
- Refreshed the UI with a more modern font.
- Bug fixes
Version 4.4 (released in May 1 2025)
- Fixed: Clear disk info was not being able to get S.M.A.R.T data on SATA disks plugged in through USB adapters.
- Fixed: SSD lifetime left was not showing the correct value for some devices.
- Bug fixes
Version 4.3 (released in September 13 2024)
- Improved the UI with a gradient title bar and rounded corners.
- Bug fixes
Version 4.2.1 (released in February 17 2024)
- Bug fixes
Version 4.2 (released in January 16 2024)
- Fixed the but where the tray icon was not launching in some computers, the main window was launched instead.
- Other bug fixes
Version 4.1 (released in January 14 2023)
- Added three more buttons to the menu: Execute self-test, Enable S.MA.R.T. for this disk, and Disable S.MA.R.T. for this disk.
- Bug fixes
Version 4.0 (released in November 10 2022)
- Added disk monitoring support. When this new feature is enabled, Clear Disk Info whatches the disks you select for monitoring, and reports important changes to the users.
- Bug fixes
Version 3.3 (released in August 17 2022)
- Added a menu option: Don't show bad status for this disk - Enable this option to prevent the selected disk from be marked with the Warning or the Failing status, regardless of what the S.M.A.R.T. attributes's values are. You can disable this feature again anytime later. This is a per-disk feature.
- The menu can now be displayed by right clicking an itme in one of the lists.
- Applied a wider internal threshold to some of the attributes.
Version 3.2 (released in July 16 2022)
- Tweaked the UI, especially changing fonts from bold to regular, to improve reading quality
- Bug fixes
Version 3.1 (released in February 17 2022)
- Users can now chose between a dark and a light theme
- Bug fixes
Version 3.0 (released in February 12 2022)
- Tweaked the UI with a light theme
- Fixed the bug where the ideal value for Power On Hours count was always the same as the actual value on some drives.
- Other bug fixes
Version 2.3.2 (released in December 08 2021)
- Updated the code signing certificate used to sign the application
- Bug fixes
Version 2.3.1 (released in November 1 2021)
- Bug fixes
Version 2.3 (released in October 20 2021)
- Tweaked the UI with more pleaseant colors.
- Bug fixes
Version 2.2 (released in July 16 2021)
- Improved the disk list's design. The icon is ovelayed with a small status sign instead of coloring the text label in green, yellow or red.
- Bug fixes
Version 2.1 (released in April 29 2021)
- Improved UI response and stability
- Bug fixes
Version 2.0 (released in March 15 2021)
- Clear Disk info no longer prevents disks from being ejected while running.
- New menu item: Eject this disk. This new feature lets quickly eject disks directly from Clear Disk Info. You can even eject fixed drives, when not in use.
- Improved compatibility with more devices and added support for some new attributes.
- Added a new column to the S.M.A.R.T. attributes list, which displays the attribute ID. NVMe attributes don't really have an ID, so they are shown as 1.xx for critical warnings, and 2.xx for the other attributes.
- Bug fixes
Version 1.9.5 (released in March 10 2021)
- Fixed the bug where some SanDisk SSDs showed more than 100% lifetime remaining
- Improved compatibility with more devices
- Bug fixes
Version 1.9 (released in april 15 2020)
- Fixed the bug where some HDD devices were identified as SSDs
- Improved compatibility with more devices
- Bug fixes
