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SMART Utility vs smartmontools

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

SMART Utility

SMART Utility

System & Hardware

SMART Utility is a system utility tool by Acronis that provides detailed information about your computer's hardware components like CPU, RAM, hard drives, etc. It monitors their health, temperatures and 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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