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Acronis Drive Monitor vs smartmontools

A side-by-side look at Acronis Drive Monitor and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Acronis Drive Monitor

Acronis Drive Monitor

System & Hardware

Acronis Drive Monitor is a hard drive health monitoring utility that provides alerts about potential drive failures. It monitors S.M.A.R.T. drive attributes and lets you know if any values go out of range so you can take preventative steps.

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smartmontools

smartmontools

System & Hardware

smartmontools is a set of open source utilities that monitor the health of disk drives and predict drive failures, compatible with most types of hard drives. It reads SMART data to detect and report on various drive attributes related to reliability, such as reallocated sectors count.

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