hardinfo VS iotop

Compare hardinfo vs iotop and see what are their differences.

hardinfo

System profiler and benchmark tool for Linux systems (by lpereira)
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hardinfo iotop
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5.0 7.8
about 1 month ago about 2 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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hardinfo

Posts with mentions or reviews of hardinfo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.

iotop

Posts with mentions or reviews of iotop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-25.
  • Looking for Rust Project Ideas for Semester Project - Any Suggestions?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 25 Feb 2023
    Rewrite something like https://linux.die.net/man/1/iotop in Rust. Currently it is implemented in python, and running it as root does not give a warm fuzzy feeling.( I C version has also been made : https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop but I have not reviewed that )
  • HDD Disk health monitoring
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jul 2022
  • A little review of process (task) monitors and system info tools
    7 projects | /r/linux | 9 Feb 2022
    Process monitoring is mandatory but CPU and I/O monitoring can be useful. It does a moveable window so I can watch it on a second monitor, along with other app windows, when the app I'm testing is running full screen so conky, although nice, is not quite what I need. In a terminal I use htop and/or iotop but I find graphical apps to be easier to read. I didn't want to have to compile anything or use Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/whatever but there's already a bunch of monitors in the repos so I checked them out and here's what I found.
  • BTOP++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2021
    I recommend the C reimplementation of iotop btw, it has lots more features and is more efficient and is maintained. It is packaged as iotop-c in Debian and other distros.

    https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hardinfo and iotop you can also consider the following projects:

phoronix-test-suite - The Phoronix Test Suite open-source, cross-platform automated testing/benchmarking software.

btop - A monitor of resources

powerupp - Simple GUI for UPP

awesome-alternatives-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust

Stacer - Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

amdgpu-clocks - Simple script to control power states of amdgpu driven GPUs

conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager

below - A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems

pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator

unp - Unpacks things.