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Drive Genius vs smartmontools

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

Drive Genius

Drive Genius

Os & Utilities

Drive Genius is a utility software for Mac that provides tools to optimize, monitor, and maintain hard drives and SSDs. It can defragment drives, monitor disk health, optimize system performance, and recover lost data.

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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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