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Argus Monitor vs smartmontools

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

Argus Monitor

Argus Monitor

System & Hardware

Argus Monitor is a fan and temperature monitoring software for Windows. It allows users to view system temperatures, set custom fan speeds, and create advanced temperature-based fan control profiles to optimize system cooling and reduce noise.

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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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