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Data Lifeguard Diagnostic vs smartmontools

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

Data Lifeguard Diagnostic

Data Lifeguard Diagnostic

System & Hardware

Data Lifeguard Diagnostic is a hard drive diagnostic utility from Western Digital. It can perform drive tests to detect problems, fix some errors, and monitor drive health.

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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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