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News

• 2017-05-11: Alexander Shaduri released ​version 0.9.0 of GSmartControl (a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
• 2017-04-11: We moved the Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools from the svn repository to the Trac wiki. So it is open now for your contributions of further recipes, case studies and comments.
• 2016-05-07: We released ​version 6.5 of Smartmontools. See the NEWS file and the ticket report to get a summary of the changes and new features.
• 2016-04-09: We added basic support for ​NVMe devices to smartmontools for Windows. See NVMe wiki page for further info. Source tarball and binaries are available at ​builds.smartmontools.org. Please report any issues here in trac or on the ​smartmontools support mailinglist
• 2016-03-20: We added basic support for ​NVMe devices to smartmontools on Linux and FreeBSD. See NVMe wiki page for further info.
• 2015-10-10: Our new website ​builds.smartmontools.org provides daily builds from smartmontools SVN trunk.
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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/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. 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 Live CDs/DVDs.

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.

Contribute to Smartmontools

Device Information

If your drive is not in the ​current version of smartmontools drive database you can help to improve smartmontools information by sending a report about your drive to our mailinglist ​smartmontools-database.

We collect info about USB devices that have been successfully or unsuccessfully tested with smartmontools. If you have a device not listed there, please tell us the test result, by editing the wiki page, and/or by sending an email to the ​smartmontools-database mailinglist.

Bug Reports

To submit a bug report or propose an enhancement for smartmontools create a new ticket here in trac. Login is needed for that. If you don't want to register an account, you can also send the info to our ​smartmontools-support mailing list.

Patches

Patches are welcome! The most convenient way for us is, when you attach them to a new ticket here in trac. But it's also possible to submit patches for code review to ​developers mailinglist. You don't need to be member of the mailinglist for it. Our list moderator will approve posting requests in these cases. Your patches should refer to our recent code base in SVN. You should also have a look at the documents in the developers area here in the wiki. You will find info about smartmontools software architecture and tutorials and guidelines from our developers there.

License

Smartmontools (and content in this wiki) are published under ​GNU GPL.