Any program that will read the SMART data off the drive is probably what you're after ? Passmark DiskCheckup for example, but there are doubtless hundreds of others..... "SMART" is the secret word you need include within your choice of search terms on Google !
To be honest, drives are cheap as chips these days, so if you smell something fishy, its better to replace earlier rather than later.... the later you leave it, the greater the risk of data corruption. The monitoring software might not always pick it up.
Last edited by mixture; 23rd Jun 2012 at 13:36.