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FromScratch vs smartmontools

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

FromScratch

FromScratch

Photos & Graphics

FromScratch is a free, open-source drawing and painting application for Windows, macOS and Linux. It provides a simple but powerful set of tools for digital art creation, including brushes, layers, filters and more.

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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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