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smartmontools

brew install smartmontools v7.5 GPL-2.0-or-later

Monitor hard drive and SSD health via S.M.A.R.T. attributes; command-line utility for predictive failure detection.

Why you might care

Essential sysadmin tool for proactive disk monitoring—runs scheduled checks to catch failing drives before data loss. Supports most ATA, SCSI, and NVMe devices. Often used in server/NAS deployments and automated monitoring scripts to track temperature, bad sectors, and wear levels.

Categories

sysadmin monitoring hardware

Alternatives

lsblk hdparm nvme-cli
2.9k
30-day installs · #816
8.4k
90-day · #879
32.5k
365-day · #847

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