Alternatives to GSmartControl for all platforms with any license

CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T. It shows the health status much more clearly than similar tools. The "Function /...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Selective Wipe Hardware Monitoring Multiple languages Portable ... Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Terabytes Written (TBW) info Add a feature

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HD Tune

HD Tune is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.)...

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Hardware Monitoring Quick/slow surface scan Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

123 Like
smartmontools

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

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HDDScan

HDDScan is a freeware utility for storage devices diagnostics (HDD, RAID, Flash). The program can scan storage device for bad blocks, show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and...

Free Windows
Hardware Monitoring Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

21 Like
HDD Guardian

HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T.
- Discontinued Project has been discontinued per notice: http://hddguardian.codeplex.com/
- You are able to update the database by running update-smart-drivedb.exe in the Smartctl folder. That enabled me to recognise my WD Elements 2TB USB 3.0 drive. Also the amount of information this program gives is really incredible. Total Control Guest • May 2016
Free Open Source Windows
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Hardware Monitoring Portable Add a feature

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Disks

Disks is a udisks graphical front-end included in the gnome-disk-utility package. Disks can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and...

Free Open Source Linux
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

3 Like
SeaTools

SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer. The installation needs...

Free Windows
Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

8 Like
MHDD

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics. MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access...
- Discontinued Last version 4.6 was released in 2005. See http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/mhdd_changelog.en.html
Free Windows
Hardware Monitoring Portable Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

23 Like
DriveDx

DriveDx is advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility. Unlike most drive utilities, DriveDx does not only monitor the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. status...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Hardware Monitoring Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

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SSD Life

SSD reliability analysis It’s a shame when a drive failure results in all your personal data being lost. SSDLife allows you to control how worn your SSDs are in an easy...

Commercial Windows
Portable Add a feature

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Macrorit Disk Scanner

Macrorit Disk Scanner is a third party disk surface portable tool for scan disk bad sectors which provides you with better options and better performance than Windows...

Free Windows
Hardware Monitoring Portable Add a feature

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PassMark DiskCheckup

PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a...

Free Personal Windows
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

4 Like
StableBit Scanner

StableBit Scanner is a state of the art disk health monitoring tool. - Monitors the SMART data of your disks, and presents them in an easy to read, meaningful way. -...

Commercial Windows
Multiple languages Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

6 Like
Hard Drive Inspector

Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. In many cases it is able to warn the user about forthcoming disk...

Commercial Windows
Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

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HDDLife

Modern hard drives are much more reliable than the disks of yesterday. However, they still are extremely complex electronic devices with moving parts that are subject to...

Commercial Windows
Hardware Monitoring Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Add a feature

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GSmartControl Comments

No user friendly install package

Comment by Windows2000

about GSmartControl · Oct 2014 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

I'm new to Mac but an extreme Windows power user for over 20 years. I couldn't find a method to install GSmartControl without downloading the source and doing a make and install to compile it. Ridiculous in this day and age. What a shame because it looks like good software.

Some clever programmer will package this up and put it on the Mac App Store for a buck and make a nice coin.

ted939 · Jan 2018

Thanks, Protron! Forgive the inexperience/ignorance, but what to do once .deb file downloaded. I did so, but don't see anything that looks like the dozens (hundreds?) of programs I've downloaded on Mac and PC before.

Thanks!

Protron · Feb 2018

Sorry ted939, I have no idea why I wrote that 2 years ago. But you seem to have a good point. Deleting my previous post so people don't get confused. Thanks for replying.

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CrystalDiskInfo

HD Tune

smartmontools

HDDScan

HDD Guardian

Disks

SeaTools

MHDD

DriveDx

SSD Life

Macrorit Disk Scanner

PassMark DiskCheckup

StableBit Scanner

Hard Drive Inspector

HDDLife

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GSmartControl Comments

No user friendly install package