HDDScan vs smartmontools
A side-by-side look at HDDScan and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
HDDScan
System & Hardware
HDDScan is a free hard drive testing utility for Windows. It scans hard drives for bad sectors and predicts potential hard drive failures. Useful for monitoring hard drive health.
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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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