HDD Guardian

Project Description
HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T.

HDD Guardian is a front-end for smartctl, a tool for querying S.M.A.R.T. data of your hard drive. With HDD Guardian you can survey your hard disk health, preventing data loss due to hard drive death.

The key features of HDD Guardian are:

easy device overview, with temperature, overall health and bad sectors indication
display an optional icon into the tray area for each local device
HDD Guardian tray icon change shield color if a device is failing
monitor virtual devices loaded from a shared smartctl output
displays device identity information
perform self-test and displays their results
allow enabling/disabling S.M.A.R.T., automatic offline data collection (an automatic test performed by device every four hours) and autosave of vendor-specific attributes
displays attributes information and graphs
displays device error log
allow to set device-specific attribute format and firmware debug
allow to set warnings behaviour
support for external (USB) devices, also in docking stations