Top 15 smartmontools Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

1. HDD Guardian

HDD Guardian The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools, in order to make this nice utility accessible to all Windows users. HDD Guardian requires .NET Framework 4.0 and is actually tested on Windows XP SP3 32 bit and Windows 7......

2. Hard Drive Inspector

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 failure in advance, thus preventing information loss.......

3. diskscan

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 have a suspicion that it is failing it is also important to know how bad......

4. Acronis Drive Monitor

Acronis Drive Monitor Free, downloadable software application developed by Acronis to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives. Early warning to save your dataAcronis Drive Monitor can help predict when a hard drive is about to fail, giving you the chance to backup your data before disaster strikes. When Acronis Drive Monitor......

5. HDD Health

HDD Health HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7. Sitting in the system tray, it monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) built into all new hard......

6. DriveDx

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, but also analyzes the changes of all drive health indicators that are closely related to HDD or SSD failures (like the pending bad sectors, reallocated bad sectors,......

7. Paragon HFS+ for Windows

Paragon HFS+ for Windows Experience total communication between MAC & Windows with the industry’s highest performing file system technologyParagon HFS+ for Windows is the only solution that provides full read-write access to HFS+/HFSX partitions on any type of disks (APM, GPT, MBR) under most of Windows versions!Access Mac-formatted partitions in Windows systems with the......

8. fio

fio fio is an I/O tool meant for both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for many different types of I/O engines, I/O priorities (on newer Linux kernels), rate limited I/O, forked or threaded jobs and much more.fio can work on either of block devices or files and accepts......

9. IOzone

IOzone IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor’s computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations:Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read,......

10. SQLIO

SQLIO SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.......

11. StableBit Scanner

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.- Lists detailed information about your disk, including the connection type, bus speed, and supported features.- Performs a surface scan of the......

12. MyDefragPowerGUI

MyDefragPowerGUI Freeware made by Emiel WieldraaijerMyDefrag (previously JkDefrag) is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can......

13. Victoria

Victoria Victoria - An experimental program to work with HDD. Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive. However,......

14. Stellar Drive Monitor

Stellar Drive Monitor Stellar Drive Monitor brings in good news for Mac users having OS X 10.4.11 to 10.8, now each of them can closely monitor the internal hard drive activities & corresponding partitions in the most simple fashion. The UI of the tool is crisp which enables soft clicks to analyse temperature......

15. Acronis Disk Director

Acronis Disk Director Acronis Disk Director is a set of powerful tools that work together to optimize your disk usage, and protect your data. Create and manage disk partitions to store different file systems or operating systems on one disk. Easily recover lost or deleted data, reduce time of image backups and diagnostic......