A tool to "ping" hard drives to prevent spin-downs and head parking

This application is a Windows tray-only application that writes and deletes (thus "pings") a random file with zero length to selected hard drives in a given interval.

Functions:

• Auto-discovery of drives on startup
• Stores interval and selected drives in a serialized file
• Re-enables settings of a found configuration file
• Auto-fixes the settings by removing selected drives that are not available upon start
• Includes three icons that change depending on the state
• Those states are
  • 1: disabled (gray, no drive selected),
  • 2: writing (red for 5 secs when timer elapses)
  • 3: active-idle (green, waiting for a timer to elapse to write random file to selected drives)

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)