The only thing they have in common is that they can both do drive scans. It would make a good compliment to TechTool Pro or something like Disk Warrior because it does a lot of stuff TechTool Pro doesn't do, and TechTool Pro does a lot of stuff Scannerz doesn't do. Scannerz comes with Scannerz, Phoenix, FSE, and Performance Probe. It's just not that reliable, in my opinion. It seems to sometimes report errors that aren't critical or necessarily serious as near death, and then turns around and completely ignores imminent failures. It seems to me SMART technology is kind of sketchy as far as a test technology goes. Unless you find the looks of DriveDX so compelling, I think TechTool Pro and its SMART monitoring features are good enough. DriveDX has a nice interface, probably better than any of the others (I'm not familiar with DiskTools Pro). TechTool Pro has it's own SMART monitoring and the first time it appeared was, I think, before smartmontools ever existed, so it tells me TechTool Pro has it's own original code. If you don't mind paying money for that, I guess it's OK, but being open source, how long will updates occur and what will happen if the developers just decide to stop supporting it? Basically what they do is run smartctl and then grab its output. You can download the DriveDX demo for free, and if you do you can right click on the DriveDX binary, click on show package contents, double click on contents, double click on resources, and there you will find smartctl.
Who created drivedx for free#
You can download smartctl for free because it's open source.ĭriveDX puts on a nice show, meaning it looks good, but it's dependent on a third party, open source project to do all it's work. DriveDX is an interface for the command line tool, smartctl, which is part of the smartmontools package and is a SMART monitor. If you have TechTool Pro you don't need DriveDx. I have TechTool Pro, DriveDX, and Scannerz. Fixing Bad Sectors: NO SUCH THING! Read my summary below for details!
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