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.
GSmartControl supports ATA drives (both PATA and SATA), various USB to ATA bridges and drives behind some RAID controllers. See Smartmontools USB Device support page for an (incomplete) list of supported USB to ATA bridges.
Supported 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 added to GSmartControl using "Add Device..." functionality or --add-device command-line option.
GSmartControl features:
- automatically reports and highlights any anomalies
- allows enabling/disabling SMART
- allows enabling/disabling Automatic Offline Data Collection - a short self-check that the drive will perform automatically every four hours with no impact on performance
- 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.
GSmartControl 1.1.0 changelog:
- New Statistics, Temperature Log, Error Recovery, Physical and Directory tabs.
- General tab shows non-SMART device settings as well.
- Attributes tab shows entries in "brief" format.
- Error Log tab shows Extended error log by default (if supported).
- Self-Test Log tab now shows Extended self-test log by default (if supported).
- GSmartControl now uses "-x" equivalent for retrieving data (as opposed to "-a"); loading "-x" outputs as virtual drives is also supported.
- A new ability to copy rows in CSV format from Attribute, Statistics and Self-Test Log tables.
- New "Update Drive Database" functionality.
- Windows: Drive letters are shown for each drive.
- Scan time is shown under virtual drive icons.
- Polkit is supported with gsmartcontrol-root script now.
- Pcrecpp is no longer bundled, use system-installed one instead.
- Smartmontools version 5.43 is required at runtime.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
Download: GSmartControl 1.1.0 (32-bit) | Portable | ~10.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: GSmartControl 1.1.0 (64-bit) | Portable
View: GSmartControl Home Page | Other Operating Systems