Crucial SSD drive management software and firmware tool.
Storage Executive is a free management suite for owners of Crucial SSD drives which provides a number of useful and sometime critical tools.
Within the main interface of Storage Executive, you can access different panels by clicking the left-hand options; they include: System Information, Drive Details, S.M.A.R.T. status, Firmware Updates and Sanitize Drive.
All of the different utilities are pretty self-explanatory, but the Sanitize Drive feature will completely wipe your drive. This can be useful for many different reasons.
Storage Executive can also optimize your solid state drives by enabling enhance burst performance and updating your firmware. It can also be useful to view how much space has been used.
Overall, Storage Executive can be a useful application to have in certain situations where an official product is warranted.
Features of Storage Executive
- Acronis True Image: Clone your existing drive to a Crucial SSD.
- Data migration: Easily move your data to a Crucial SSD.
- Firmware update: Keep your Crucial drive up-to-date.
- Monitoring: Get real-time updates on drive health.
- Optimization: Manage Crucial SSDs with enhanced performance.
- Optimized performance: Improve performance with optimized settings.
- Over-provisioning: Optimize the performance of your Crucial SSD.
- RAID monitoring: Monitor the status of your RAID array.
- SMART self-test: Check the health of your Crucial SSD.
- Sanitize feature: Erase data with confidence.
- Secure boot: Enable boot security with secure boot feature.
- Secure erase: Protect your data with secure erase technology.
- Storage usage tracking: Visualize your drive usage.
- System scanner: Scan your system for compatible Crucial SSDs.
- Temperature monitoring: Get an overview of drive temperature.
Compatibility and License
Storage Executive is provided under a freeware license on Windows from drive utilities with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 5.0.5 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Storage Executive run on?
Storage Executive can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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