ADATA SSD Toolbox vs SMART Sniffer

ADATA SSD Toolbox is free Windows software for viewing ADATA drive information and managing SSD settings. Its dashboard shows health, temperature, remaining lifespan, model, firmware version, serial number, capacity, TBW and S.M.A.R.T. data. Quick and Full Diagnostics check a selected drive’s health and free and used space. Maintenance tools include Secure Erase, firmware updates, Toolbox upgrades and log export. SSD Optimization applies TRIM to selected free space, while OS Optimization provides SSD-focused settings. Benchmark runs read and write tests on ADATA SSDs. CloneDrive synchronously copies data from local drive partitions to other drives. The download page identifies ADATA SSD series products as applicable. The guide supports Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 and requires at least 10 MB of free capacity. Some functions are unavailable for non-ADATA drives, and the guide recommends backing up data before firmware updates or erasing an SSD. The software is offered free to purchasers of ADATA storage products.

SMART Sniffer monitors disk health and sends warnings to Home Assistant. A lightweight Go agent runs on each monitored machine, where every drive appears as its own Home Assistant device. Its Attention Needed sensor covers ATA, SATA, NVMe, and SAS drives, returning NO, MAYBE, YES, or UNSUPPORTED. When a drive’s health changes, persistent Home Assistant notifications can appear automatically, with options to escalate, de-escalate, or dismiss them automatically. Agents advertise on the local network through mDNS/Zeroconf, allowing Home Assistant to find them without manual IP entry. Filesystem monitoring is optional; for configured mountpoints, it reports total, used, and available bytes plus usage percentage. An integration service call can provide SMART data and assessments for use with Google AI, ChatGPT, Claude, or Ollama. The agent also exposes HTTP endpoints for health, drive summaries, individual SMART data, and filesystem usage. SMART Sniffer is free and MIT-licensed. It requires smartmontools 7.0 or newer for JSON output; some USB enclosures that block SMART passthrough are reported as unsupported with unknown health.