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runit vs smartmontools

A side-by-side look at runit and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

runit

runit

System & Hardware

runit is a service supervision suite used to control processes and services on Unix-like operating systems. It is lightweight, customizable, and follows a simple yet robust process supervision scheme.

process-controlservice-managementunix
smartmontools

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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