HDD Guardian vs smartmontools
A side-by-side look at HDD Guardian and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
HDD Guardian
System & Hardware
HDD Guardian is a hard drive monitoring utility for Windows that checks the health of your hard drives and SSDs. It scans for potential issues like bad sectors, temperature issues, and impending drive failures.
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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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