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Alexander Shaduri
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Added a scam alert regarding a phishing site and provided guidance on downloading GSmartControl from official sources.
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# GSmartControl
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***Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool***
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[comment]: <> (Same contents as README.md, but without the badges)
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**SCAM ALERT:** gsmartcontrol[.]com is a phishing site! Please don't download anything from there!
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Please always download GSmartControl from its official website [gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev](https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev) or the official GitHub repository [github.com/ashaduri/gsmartcontrol](https://github.com/ashaduri/gsmartcontrol).
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[GSmartControl](https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev)
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is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from [smartmontools](https://www.smartmontools.org/)
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package), which is a tool for
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querying and controlling [SMART](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis_and_Reporting_Technology)
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(Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting
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Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to
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inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various
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tests on it.
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## Downloads
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The [Downloads](https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/downloads) page contains
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all the available packages of GSmartControl.
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## Features
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- automatically reports and highlights any anomalies;
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- allows enabling/disabling SMART;
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- supports configuration of global and per-drive options for smartctl;
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- performs SMART self-tests;
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- displays drive identity information, capabilities, attributes, device statistics, etc.;
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- can read in smartctl output from a saved file, interpreting it as a read-only virtual device;
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- works on most smartctl-supported operating systems;
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- has extensive help information.
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### Supported Hardware
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GSmartControl supports SATA, PATA, and NVMe drives, as well as drives
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behind some USB bridges and RAID controllers.
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Please see the
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[Supported Hardware](https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/supported-hardware) page
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for more information.
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### Supported Platforms
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GSmartControl supports all major desktop operating systems, including
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Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and other BSD-style operating systems.
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Please see the
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[Software Requirements](https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/software-requirements) page
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for more information.
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## Copyright and Licensing
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GSmartControl is Copyright (C) 2008 - 2025 Alexander Shaduri [ashaduri@gmail.com](mailto:ashaduri@gmail.com) and contributors.
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GSmartControl is licensed under the terms of
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[GNU General Public License Version 3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html).
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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Free Software Foundation.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
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A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licenses for more details.
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This product includes icons from Oxygen Icons copyright [KDE](https://kde.org)
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and licensed under the [GNU LGPL version 3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html) or later.
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