Comparison of drive health diagnostic utilities for Mac
| Feature | DriveDx | SMART Reporter | SMART Utility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | DriveDx | SMART Reporter | SMART Utility |
| Drive Overall Health Rating | |||
| Drive Overall Performance Rating | |||
| SSD Lifetime Left Indicator | |||
| I/O errors monitoring | |||
| Interactive help hints for all drive health indicators (SMART attributes) | |||
| Detects (HDD / SSD) drive health states: | 4 | 2 | 3 / 2 |
| OK | |||
| Warning | |||
| Failing (pre-fail) | / | ||
| Failed (one or more thresholds exceeded) |
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| HDD health status evaluation based on next criteria: | |||
| built-in S.M.A.R.T. status | |||
| SMART attributes statistically closely related to HDD failures | |||
| health indicators proximity to threshold | |||
| measurements history | |||
| SSD health status evaluation based on next criteria: | |||
| built-in S.M.A.R.T. status | |||
| SMART attributes statistically closely related to SSD failures | |||
| health indicators proximity to thresholds | |||
| measurements history | |||
| SMART attribute statuses: | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| OK | |||
| Warning | |||
| Failing (pre-fail) | |||
| Failed (threshold exceeded) |
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| SoftRAID support | |||
| SMART attribute (health indicator) value proximity to threshold in percent (status bar) Learn more |
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| Automatic tracking of drive SMART attribute values approximation to thresholds. Automated alerting if value is close to threshold Learn more |
* (* requires manual per attribute setup) |
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| Save report to text file | |||
| Temperature statistics | |||
| Drive Self-tests | |||
| S.M.A.R.T. error log | |||
| Device Statistics | |||
| Automatic Email Notifications | |||
| with attached full detailed report | |||
| Send email notification: | |||
| when drive failed | |||
| when drive failing | |||
| on warning (health related issues found) | |||
| on drive heath rating threshold reached | |||
| on performance rating threshold reached | |||
| on SSD lifetime left threshold reached | |||
| when drive self-test completed | |||
| Periodic status reports | Only 1 per day, without detailed full report |
DriveDx is the most advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility!
Requires macOS 10.9+.