sdparm vs smartmontools
A side-by-side look at sdparm and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
sdparm
System & Hardware
sdparm is a utility for querying and modifying SCSI device parameters on Linux. It allows viewing and changing settings like timeout values, queue depths, and more for SCSI disks and storage devices.
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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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