smartmontools vs StableBit Scanner
smartmontools
smartmontools.orgStableBit Scanner
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| Figure | smartmontools | StableBit Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Disk Diagnostic Software | 8.1 (#7) | 7.5 (#16) |
| Spec score · Disk Health Monitoring Software | 8.0 (#10) | 7.4 (#24) |
| Notifications | smartd supports email warning addresses and executable warning commands. | StableBit Cloud notifications are listed for Apple and Android apps, web push, email, worldwide SMS, and Twitter. |
| Purpose | Smartmontools provides utilities to control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. | StableBit Scanner continuously scans hard drives, monitors on-disk health parameters, identifies damaged files, and attempts partial or full file recovery. |
Plans
StableBit Scanner
- Personal Retail License$29.95, paid once
- Small Business Retail License$149.95, paid once
- Corporate Retail License$499.95, paid once
In their own words
smartmontools
smartmontools is a free package containing smartctl and smartd for controlling and monitoring storage devices through SMART. It supports ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe disks, as well as SCSI/SAS tape devices. smartctl can report SMART health status, show capabilities such as error logging and offline surface scanning, display vendor-specific attributes, start device self-tests, and read their logs. A failing health status can mean a device has failed or predicts failure within 24 hours. smartd periodically monitors SMART status, error and self-test logs, and attribute changes; it can schedule tests and report errors and attribute changes to syslog. It also supports warning emails and executable commands. The project says it should run on modern Linux, BSD variants, macOS, Solaris, Windows, Cygwin, OS/2, eComStation, and QNX systems, and can run from various Live CDs and DVDs. The package uses the GNU GPL Version 2 license and was originally derived from the Linux smartsuite package. Its capabilities focus on SMART health reporting, testing, and ongoing monitoring.
StableBit Scanner
StableBit Scanner has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.