smartmontools vs Stellar Drive Monitor
smartmontools
smartmontools.org
Stellar Drive Monitor
stellarinfo.comSide by side
| Figure | smartmontools | Stellar Drive Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Disk Diagnostic Software | 8.1 (#7) | 6.9 (#23) |
| Spec score · Disk Health Monitoring Software | 8.0 (#10) | 6.8 (#27) |
| Purpose | Smartmontools provides utilities to control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. | Stellar Drive Monitor continuously checks a storage drive’s performance and alerts users about anomalies. |
| Security | The project uses free code signing from SignPath.io and a free certificate from the SignPath Foundation. | Stellar states that its organization is ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified. |
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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.
Stellar Drive Monitor
Stellar Drive Monitor has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.