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CLUSTER HARD-DRIVE-HEALTH · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2006-09-01

S.M.A.R.T. hard drive health monitoring

This cluster comprises utilities that use S.M.A.R.T. data to diagnose, monitor, and predict hard drive health, including a Windows diagnostic tool, a system upkeep utility, and a web-based monitoring service. The dated entries are sparse, with two early entries in 2006 and 2009 followed by a long gap and then several entries from 2020 to 2026, revealing a dormant period rather than a continuous stream. The traction leaders are Seatools-Full-Version, lindiskinfo, and snapraid-daemon, each with 0 stars, indicating minimal activity signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2006: 1JAN 2009: 1DEC 2020: 1AUG 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1MAR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2006OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 1 commercial · 8 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01WatuDisk18★15 dayslivehobbyWindows disk health monitor that reads SMART data from SATA and NVMe drives, rates health, and warns before failure.
  2. 02rustine1★5 dayslivehand-codedindieWindows diagnostic tool that scans PC hardware health, blue screens, disk SMART, RAM status, and explains fixes in one small portable executable.
  3. 03Seatools-Full-Version0★13 days—commercialWindows disk diagnostic tool that tests hard drives for errors using S.M.A.R.T. and other advanced checks.
  4. 04lindiskinfo0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that monitors S.M.A.R.T. and NVMe health data to report drive status for Linux users.
  5. 05arch-check0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that checks system health indicators such as disk usage, kernel, services, and SMART data.
  6. 06snapraid-daemon0★1 moliveopen sourceData integrity monitoring service that adds health checks, power management, a web UI, and notifications to RAID arrays.
  7. 07rdhm-agent0★5 moliveopen sourceDaemon that monitors remote disk health and reports status to a central monitoring system.
  8. 08hdaps-gl0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop monitor that visualizes the hard drive protection sensor status on ThinkPad laptops.
  9. 09scrutiny0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceA web-based monitoring tool that tracks hard drive health via S.M.A.R.T. data and predicts failures from historical trends.
  10. 10disk_usage0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTool that monitors disk usage and sends alerts when usage exceeds a threshold.
  11. 11diskmonitor0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that monitors hard drive health and reports SMART success status for system upkeep.

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