Maximum PC vs smartmontools
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Maximum PC
News & Books
Maximum PC is a magazine and website that provides news, reviews, and tips for enthusiasts who want to build and optimize high performance personal computers. It covers topics like PC components, overclocking, water cooling, case mods, and gaming performance.
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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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