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diskscan vs smartmontools

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

diskscan

diskscan

Os & Utilities

Diskscan is a free open-source disk space analyzer for Windows. It allows users to visually see what is taking up space on their hard drives. Diskscan scans local disks and presents an interactive treemap visualization to easily identify large files and folders.

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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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