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GSmartControl

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GSmartControl provides a GUI for smartctl from smartmontools, allowing users to monitor and control SMART data on hard drives. It supports health inspection, runs diagnostic tests, and warns about potential drive failures, ensuring maintenance and optimal disk performance.

Drive information window - A failing drive, attribute list

License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
Drive information window - Identity information
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4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Features

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  1.  Temperature Monitoring
  2.  Support for S.M.A.R.T. data

 Tags

  • hard-drive
  • smart

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GSmartControl information

  • Developed by

    Unknown

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3

  • Alternatives

    32 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about GSmartControl, and it has gotten 87 likes

GSmartControl was added to AlternativeTo by Kerridge0 on Sep 28, 2010 and this page was last updated May 1, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Atoshi
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Aug 17, 2016
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Easy to use, open-source, safe, and fast. Does its job well.

coth
Dec 7, 2017

Well, so far CrystalDiskInfo icon CrystalDiskInfo does it weller. GSC doesn't show Host Writes for SSDs, doesn't show whatever Trim is supported and working, it doesn't have email notification in case of SMART issues and it have quite an overloaded UI with too much clicks, yet it wouldn't be difficult to make SMART table more pleasant for an eye and General tab more organized with important info and unimportant info regrouped separately.

james_PTG
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Apr 24, 2020
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powerful tool ! a lot of info and includ self test etc...

Notiz_Me
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Mar 14, 2019
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One of the simplest S.M.A.R.T. tools I've come across!

Windows2000
Oct 5, 2014
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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.

Ted C
Jan 30, 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 10, 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.

What is GSmartControl?

Hard disk drive health inspection tool

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools icon smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

GSmartControl can let you know in advance of failing that the drive has errors. Since a hard drive which has errors can be slower as well as fail at any time, it can help you justify spending time to back up your data or upgrade your hard drive.

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