HD Tune vs smartmontools
A side-by-side look at HD Tune and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
HD Tune
System & Hardware
HD Tune is a hard disk utility program for Windows that provides benchmarks, information, diagnostic tools and low-level formatting for SATA, IDE and SCSI hard drives. It analyzes drive performance through read, write and access time tests.
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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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