GSmartControl

Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

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:

• 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. See Supported RAID Controllers.

Software Requirements

Note: If using the official Windows package, no additional software is required.

Build Requirements

• pcre1
• GTK+ 3, version 3.4 or higher
• Gtkmm, version 3.4 or higher

Runtime Requirements

• smartmontools
• xterm (optional)

Supported Operating Systems

• Linux - All the popular configurations should work.
• FreeBSD - Tested with DesktopBSD / x86.
• NetBSD - Tested with NetBSD / x86.
• OpenBSD - Tested with OpenBSD / x86-64.
• DragonFlyBSD - Code written but no testing has been performed yet. Expected to work without any issues.
• Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8.1, Windows 10. The Windows port uses pd0, pd1, etc... for physical drives 0, 1, etc... .
• Mac OS X.
• Solaris.
• QNX - Code written but no testing has been performed yet.

Usage

Command-Line Options

GSmartControl inherits options from GTK+ and other libraries, so be sure to run it with --help option to get a full list of accepted parameters. Note: The Windows version may not have a text output at all, so --help and similar arguments won't have any effect.

The most important parameters are:

-?, --help - Show help options.

-l, --no-locale - Don't use system locale.

-V, --version - Display version information.

--no-scan - Don't scan devices on startup.

--no-hide-tabs - Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.

--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].

Copyright and Licensing

GSmartControl is Copyright (C) 2008 - 2021 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 (https://www.everaldo.com). Crystal Project icons are licensed under GNU LGPL.