GSmartControl

Hard disk drive health inspection tool GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package)...

• no read/write graphs per offset Guest • Aug 2018 Disagree   Agree
• GSmartControl just carries all it takes control/check disks or SSDs for defects. Same for its cli part 'smartmontools'. Cyrille • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

Hard Disk Sentinel

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures. Prevent data loss by automatic and scheduled backup.

• Comprehensive surface testing and repair with graphical display and performance graphics. Guest • Jan 2019 Disagree   Agree
• no performance graphs per offset Guest • Aug 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Windows Linux MS-DOS

smartmontools

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

• Provides accurate SMART data via CLI with granular control of the data. Unlike other software that attempts to replicate or shorten the data provided by drives, Smartmontools is legitimately capable of interpreting and displaying accurate and up to date information and interfaces appropriately with drives. Guest • Jul 2019 Disagree   Agree
• no benchmarks, no ways to test blocks ab1 • Aug 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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

Iometer

As the Iometer Users Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the...

• Discontinued Last activity from 2014, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/files/iometer-stable/

Free Open Source Windows Linux

ViVARD

The aim of ViVARD is to examine the HDD to verify the integrity of each data sector and identify damaged or bad blocks. Compared to other programs, it has the main...

Free Windows Linux

diskscan

Diskscan is intended to provide the information needed to decide if a disk is good or not, be it an HDD or an SSD it is likely to be holding important data and if you...

Free Linux