GSmartControl is an open source graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives.
This application allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it. GSmartControl supports ATA drives (both PATA and SATA), various USB to ATA bridges and drives behind 3ware RAID controllers.
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or SMART, is a monitoring system for hard drives to detect and report various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures. It is implemented inside the drive. SMART provides several ways of monitoring hard drive health. It provides information about general health, various drive attributes (for example, number of unreadable sectors), error logs, and so on. It also provides ways to instruct the drive to run various self-tests, which may report valuable information. It can even automatically scan the disk surface in when the drive is idle, and repair the defects, reallocating the data to more safe areas.
Key Features
- Automatically reports and highlights any anomalies.
- Allows enabling/disabling Automatic Offline Data Collection – a short self-check that the drive will perform automatically every four hours with no impact on performance.
- Allows enabling/disabling SMART.
- Supports configuration of global and per-drive options for smartctl.
- Performs SMART self-tests.
- Displays drive identity information, capabilities, attributes, and self-test/error logs.
- Can read in smartctl data from a saved file, interpreting it as a read-only virtual device.
- Works on most smartctl-supported operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, and Solaris.
- Extensive help information.
Website: gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev
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Developer: Alexander Shaduri
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
GSmartControl is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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