Audience
Anyone looking for an advanced hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
About GSmartControl
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it. GSmartControl supports all major desktop operating systems, including Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and other BSD-style operating systems. Self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology, or SMART, is a monitoring system for hard drives to detect and report various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures. SMART is implemented inside the drives, providing several ways of monitoring the drive's health. It may present information about general health, various drive attributes (for example, the number of unreadable sectors), error logs, and so on.
Other Popular Alternatives & Related Software
Stellar Drive Monitor
Stellar Drive Monitor is a powerful software that continuously checks the storage drive’s overall performance. It detects and alerts the user about any anomaly on the hard drive. This feature provides valuable information on all the SMART attributes related to the storage drive through seven data columns accompanied by a graphical representation for quick reference. It allows the user to save the report for future reference or comparative analysis of HDD health checks. Stellar Drive Monitor is a comprehensive hard drive health check tool that facilitates hard disk scanning for bad sectors. It thoroughly scans the selected drive to find any bad sectors present on the drive. The software conducts a systematic hard drive bad sector check and displays them in a block table format. One more distinctive feature of Stellar Drive Monitor is the built-in disk cloning option. Users can easily create a replica of any drive by copying all the data to a target drive.
Learn more
smartmontools
The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology system built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. Smartmontools was originally derived from the Linux smartsuite package and actually supports ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe disks and SCSI/SAS tape devices. It should run on any modern Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin (macOS), Solaris, Windows, Cygwin, OS/2, eComStation or QNX system. Smartmontools can also be run from one of many different live CDs/DVDs.
Learn more
Paessler PRTG
Paessler PRTG is an all-inclusive monitoring software solution developed by Paessler. Equipped with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface with a cutting-edge monitoring engine, PRTG optimizes connections and workloads as well as reduces operational costs by avoiding outages while saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs). The solution is packed with specialized monitoring features that include flexible alerting, cluster failover solution, distributed monitoring, in-depth reporting, maps and dashboards, and more.
PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure. All important technologies are supported:
• SNMP: ready-to-use and custom options
• WMI and Windows Performance Counters
• SSH: for Linux/Unix and macOS systems
• Traffic analysis using flow protocols or packet sniffing
• HTTP requests
• REST APIs returning XML or JSON
• Ping, SQL, and many more
Learn more
AOMEI OneKey Recovery
AOMEI OneKey Recovery is a user-friendly system backup and restore software compatible with Windows PCs and servers. It enables users to create a factory recovery partition, allowing for easy restoration of the system to its original state in case of failure. The software supports backing up the operating system to various locations, including internal or external drives and network locations. During startup, users can press the "F11" or "A" key to enter the recovery environment and restore the system. AOMEI OneKey Recovery offers advanced backup options, such as adjustable compression levels to save disk space and password encryption to prevent unauthorized access. It is compatible with multiple Windows operating systems, including Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP, Vista, and various Windows Server versions. The software supports a wide range of storage devices, including local disks, external hard drives, solid-state drives, and USB flash drives.
Learn more
Integrations
No integrations listed.
Company Information
GSmartControl
gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/
Videos and Screen Captures
Other Useful Business Software
Level Up Your Cyber Defense with External Threat Management
Move beyond alerts. Gain full visibility, context, and control over your external attack surface to stay ahead of every threat.
Product Details
Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Training
Documentation
Support
Online