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From what I can tell SMART analysis, as supplied by testing tools comes in 2 forms, simple and complex. "Simple" reporting seems to be used on tools like Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter.

I got tired of randomly finding out a hard drive I thought was good wasn't actually good, so I built a tool to automatically benchmark and test my drives before I trust them with my data. Here's what ...