News

• 2012-08-13: Samuele Parise released version 0.4.1.0 of HDD Guardian (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available only for Windows.
  
  
• 2012-08-12: Alexander Shaduri released version 0.8.7 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
  
  
• 2012-06-30: We released version 5.43 of Smartmontools. See the NEWS file and the ticket report to get a summary of the changes and new features.
  
  
• 2012-05-30: We added experimental support for SATA drives behind an Areca SATA/SAS controller on Windows. Thanks to Areca for providing this patch. Please report your test results to the smartmontools support mailinglist.
  
  
• 2012-05-22: The OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver provides access to SMART data for SAT capable USB and Firewire devices on Mac OS X. This works with existing smartmontools releases. See ticket #25 for further details.
  
  
• 2011-10-20: We released version 5.42 of Smartmontools.
  
  
• 2011-06-12: Alexander Shaduri released version 0.8.6 of GSmartControl.
  
  
• 2011-06-09: We released version 5.41 of Smartmontools.
  
  
• 2011-04-19: Help wanted! We are looking for a maintainer / developer of smartmontools OpenBSD port
  
  
• 2011-02-04: We added experimental support for disks behind Intel Matrix RAID driver on Windows. Please report your test results to the smartmontools support mailinglist.
  
  
• 2010-12-09: Samsung released an important firmware patch for HD155UI and HD204UI. WARNING: Do not use smartmontools with these drives unless this patch is already installed. This warning also applies to other tools (like hdparm) which use IDENTIFY DEVICE to obtain drive information. See this page for details.
  
  

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About Smartmontools

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

Smartmontools was originally derived from the Linux ​smartsuite package and actually supports ATA/ATAPI/SATA-3 to -8 disks and ​SCSI disks and tape devices. It should run on any modern Darwin (Mac OS X), Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OS/2, Cygwin, QNX, eComStation or Windows system. Smartmontools can also be run from one of many different bootable CDs or floppies.

Due to OS-specific issues and also depending on the different state of smartmontools development on the platforms, device support is not the same for all OS platforms. We provide info about RAID-controller support here on the homepage and of course in the manpages.

Thanks to Alexander Shaduri, there is also a graphical user interface for smartctl available. Go to the Homepage of ​GSmartControl to get all info and the software itself. Have a look at the ​screenshots and the ​feature list to get an impression of this nice tool.

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License
All content in this wiki is published under ​GNU GPL.