Top 15 SMART Utility Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements (called attributes) of a hard drives operation. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is failing. SMART Utility can read and display these attributes. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive. SMART Utility also allows running a drives built in self test, which can also indicate malfunctions on the drive. ...

1. 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,......

2. 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......

3. HDDScan

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 change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.......

4. MHDD

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 an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform......

5. HDAT2

HDAT2 HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices.HDAT2 program has 2 levels:Drive level testing- main function is testing and repair (to regenerate) bad sectors for detected devices- you get much information about detected devicesFile level testing- read/find/check items (MBR, boot, directories, etc.) of file......

6. 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......

7. HDDLife

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 amortization. The high density of data storage provided by the modern disks allows for greater storage capacities and higher access speeds. However, with......

8. Argus Monitor

Argus Monitor Monitoring temperatures and status of system components such as CPU, GPU and hard disk drive, fan speeds * Monitor your hard disk drive temperature and the health status of your hard disk drive by constantly checking the critical S.M.A.R.T. attributes. * Warns you with a probability of up to......

9. Active@ Hard Disk Monitor

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).This software monitors hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time and......

10. CrystalDiskInfo

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 / Graph" is especially interesting for the "Reallocated Sectors Count".If it increases over time or is very high already, the hard drive may need to be replaced. More than 30......

11. DHE DriveInfo

DHE DriveInfo DHE DriveInfoshows HDD information: Manufacturer, Product ID, Serialnumber, Firmware, ATA-Standard, BUS Info (S-ATA 150/300/600, P-ATA, USB, SCSI), Size, Buffer Size, Rotation Rate, Formfactor, Features, AAM, APM, Master Boot Record, Disk ID, Bootloader S.M.A.R.T., S.M.A.R.T. Logs, Selftests......

12. HD Tune

HD Tune HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions:-Benchmark: measures the performance,-Info: shows detailed information,-Health: checks the health status by using SMART,-Error Scan: scans the surface for errors,-Temperature display,HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.......

13. HWiNFO (32/64)

HWiNFO (32/64) HWiNFO are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computers hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as......

14. Hard Disk Sentinel

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.......

15. Bart's Stuff Test

Bart's Stuff Test Bst5 (Bart's Stuff Test v5) is a small win32 application for long term heavy stress testing storage devices. Bst5 supports testing at file and device level.File level support enables you to test any local or remote volume by file access. This makes it possible to test almost any storage device.......