Iometer vs smartmontools
A side-by-side look at Iometer and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Iometer
System & Hardware
Iometer is an open source disk I/O performance measurement tool for testing and evaluating storage systems. It generates I/O workloads to measure performance such as maximum IOPS, throughput, response times, etc.
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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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