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smartmontools
DevelopersBruce Allen, Christian Franke, Guido Guenther[1]
ReleaseOctober 2002 (2002-10)
Stable release
7.5[2] / April 30, 2025; 13 months ago (2025-04-30)
Written inC, C++
Operating systemUnix-like (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, others) and Microsoft Windows[1]
Size1.3 MB
TypeHard Disk utility
LicenseGNU GPL[1]
Websitewww.smartmontools.org

smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe hard drives.[1][3][4]

smartmontools displays early warning signs of hard drive problems detected by S.M.A.R.T., often giving notice of impending failure while it is still possible to back data up.[5]

From late 2010 ATA Error Recovery Control configuration has been supported by smartmontools, allowing it to configure many desktop-and laptop-class hard drives for use in a RAID array and vice versa.[6]

Most Linux distributions provide the smartmontools package.[7]

User interface

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Native

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smartctl and smartd have a command-line interface. By default the output of smartctl is in human readable form; to aid logic trying to parse this output, JSON output is also available.

Third-party GUI

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  • GSmartControl is an open-source multi-platform graphical user interface (GUI) for smartctl developed by Alexander Shaduri.[8]
  • SMART Utility is a program for Mac OS X with a GUI based on smartmontools.[9]
  • HDD Guardian was an open-source Windows-only GUI for smartctl,[10] discontinued on 28 April 2017. The author said that the program could still be downloaded from various sites, but that the entire HDD Guardian project (source code, builds and documentation) had been retired.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "smartmontools wiki". Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  2. ^ Official website
  3. ^ von Hagen, William; Jones, Brian K. (2005). "Hack 78: Avoid Catastrophic Disk Failure". Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 346–350. ISBN 978-0-596-10082-7. via Google Books
  4. ^ Nemeth, Evi; Snyder, Garth; Hein, Trent R.; Whaley, Ben (2010). Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook. Pearson Education. p. 366. ISBN 9780132117364.
  5. ^ Allen, Bruce (1 January 2004). "Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART". Linux Journal. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  6. ^ Gregory, Richard. "Error recovery control with smartmontools". Liverpool University Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  7. ^ Danen, Vincent (30 March 2010). "Using smartctl to get SMART status information on your hard drives". TechRepublic. Retrieved 26 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ^ "How S.M.A.R.T. are your disks?". LinuxInsight. 8 February 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  9. ^ Frakes, Dan (29 October 2009). "SMART Utility Monitors Hard Drives' Health". PC World. Retrieved 26 July 2010.[dead link]
  10. ^ "HDD Guardian 0.7.1 (archived)". hddguardian.codeplex.com. 5 January 2017. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  11. ^ "HDD Guardian - Home". hddguardian.codeplex.com. 28 April 2017. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
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