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Blackwire Hardware Diagnostics vs GSmartControl

Blackwire Hardware Diagnostics

blackwiresoftware.com

GSmartControl

gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev

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FigureBlackwire Hardware DiagnosticsGSmartControl
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
Plans published01
Spec score · Hardware Diagnostic Software5.9 (#24)8.4 (#2)

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Blackwire Hardware Diagnostics

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  • FreeFree

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Blackwire Hardware Diagnostics

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GSmartControl

GSmartControl is a graphical interface for smartctl, used to inspect drive SMART data and run tests. It displays drive identity, capabilities, attributes and device statistics, and automatically highlights anomalies. Users can enable or disable SMART and adjust global or per-drive smartctl options. Saved smartctl output can be opened as a read-only virtual device. The software supports ATA drives, including SATA and PATA, and NVMe drives, plus some devices behind USB bridges and selected RAID controllers. SCSI and SAS drives are not supported, though some information about them may appear. GSmartControl is free software under the GNU General Public License version 3. Downloads include Linux packages, Windows installers and portable archives, FreeBSD ports, macOS packages and source code. smartmontools is a runtime requirement, but official Windows packages include the required software. Useful operations require root or Administrator privileges because operating systems restrict direct hardware access. Supported systems listed include Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, macOS and Solaris; QNX support is described as untested.

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