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GSmartControl
Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
Description
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.
Features
- automatically reports and highlights any anomalies;
- allows enabling/disabling SMART;
- supports configuration of global and per-drive options for smartctl;
- performs SMART self-tests;
- displays drive identity information, capabilities, attributes, device statistics, etc...;
- can read in smartctl output from a saved file, interpreting it as a read-only virtual device;
- works on most smartctl-supported operating systems;
- has extensive help information.
Supported Hardware
GSmartControl supports ATA drives (both PATA and SATA), various USB to ATA bridges and drives behind some RAID.
See Smartmontools USB Device Support page for an (incomplete) list of supported USB to ATA bridges.
GSmartControl supports the following RAID controllers:
- Adaptec (Linux, some models only)
- Areca (Linux, Windows)
- HP CCISS (Linux)
- HP hpsa / hpahcisr (Linux)
- Intel Matrix Storage (CSMI) (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD)
- LSI 3ware (Linux, Windows)
- LSI MegaRAID (Windows)
Note: Smartmontools supports even
more RAID Controllers.
The drives behind such controllers can be manually entered in GSmartControl using
Add Device... functionality or --add-device command-line option.
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Software Requirements
Supported Operating Systems
- Linux
- Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit) or later. The Windows port uses pd0, pd1, etc... for physical drives 0, 1, etc... .
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- DragonFlyBSD
- macOS.
- Solaris.
- QNX - Code written but no testing has been performed yet.
Build Requirements
Runtime Requirements
Note: Windows packages already include all the required software.
- Smartmontools
- xterm (optional, needed to run
update-smart-drivedb)
Usage
On Linux and Unix systems, use the desktop menu entry. Alternatively, you can
run gsmartcontrol-root, which invokes GSmartControl using your desktop's su mechanism.
Note for macOS: When installed using Homebrew, GSmartControl can be run by
typing gsmartcontrol in Terminal. If all you get is Command not found, please run
a brew doctor command first.
Command-Line Arguments
Note: The Windows version may not output any text to a command-line window,
so --help and similar arguments will be of no help.
The most important arguments are:
-?, --help - Show help options.
-V, --version - Display version information.
--no-scan - Don't scan devices on startup.
--add-virtual <file> - Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive. You
can specify this option multiple times.
--add-device <device>::<type>[::<extra_args>] - Add a device to device list.
This option is useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only. You can specify
this option multiple times.
Example:
--add-device /dev/sda --add-device /dev/twa0::3ware,2 --add-device '/dev/sdb::::-T permissive'.
-v, --verbose - Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5.
-q, --quiet - Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0.
-b, --verbosity-level - Set verbosity level [0-5].
Advanced Arguments
-l, --no-locale - Don't use system locale.
--no-hide-tabs - Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful
for debugging.
Copyright and Licensing
GSmartControl is Copyright (C) 2008 - 2022 Alexander Shaduri ashaduri@gmail.com and contributors.
GSmartControl is licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 3.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licenses for more details.
This product includes icons from Crystal Project, copyright 2006-2007 Everaldo Coelho www.everaldo.com. Crystal Project icons are licensed under GNU LGPL.