IOzone vs smartmontools
A side-by-side look at IOzone and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
IOzone
System & Hardware
IOzone is an open source disk benchmark tool for testing file systems and hard drives. It measures performance for operations like read, write, re-read, re-write, backward read, and random seeks.
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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.
smartdisk-healthdrive-monitoringhardware-diagnosticsreliability-prediction
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