Smartmontools

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Smartmontools
Developer(s) Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, Guido Guenther[1]
Initial release October 2002 (2002-10)
Stable release 6.4[1] / June 4, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-04)
Written in C, C++
Operating system Unix-like (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, others) and Microsoft Windows[1]
Size 822 KB
Type Hard Disk utility
License GNU GPL[1]
Website www.smartmontools.org

Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA and SCSI hard drives.[1][2][3]

Smartmontools displays early warning signs of hard drive problems detected by S.M.A.R.T., often giving notice of impending failure while it is still possible to back data up.[4]

From late 2010 ATA Error Recovery Control configuration has been supported by Smartmontools, allowing it to configure many desktop-and laptop-class hard drives for use in a RAID array and vice versa.[5]

Most Linux distributions provide the smartmontools package.[6]

User interface

Native

smartctl and smartd have a command-line interface.

Third-party GUI

See also

References

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External links


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  9. HDD Guardian Web site