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smartmontools

Utilities to control and monitor storage systems using SMART technology

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smartmontools is a package of two utility programs, smartctl and smartd, for controlling and monitoring storage systems through the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. It can provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. Originally derived from the Linux smartsuite package, it supports ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks as well as SCSI/SAS tape devices.

The package runs on modern Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin (macOS), Solaris, Windows, Cygwin, OS/2, eComStation and QNX systems, and can also be run from Live CDs/DVDs. Device support varies by OS platform, including RAID-controller, USB and NVMe support. A graphical user interface for smartctl is available separately as GSmartControl. Source tarballs and precompiled packages for macOS and Windows are distributed through the project page, with precompiled packages also available from distribution repositories. smartmontools is published under the GNU GPL.

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