SMART Drives Visualiser

SMART Drives Visualiser

https://github.com/Emilianissimo/SMART-Drives-Visualiser

A small desktop utility built while learning C++ and Qt6.
Nothing enterprise. Nothing overengineered. Just practice — and something visual at the end of it.

What It Is

This project was written as a learning exercise.

The goal wasn’t to build a full disk-monitoring suite.
The goal was to:

• Practice C++

• Work with Qt6

• Parse S.M.A.R.T. data

• Visualize it in a clean way

That’s it.

What It Does

• Reads S.M.A.R.T. data from available drives

• Detects the disks it can access

• Renders a pie chart (bar-style visualization) per drive

• Displays basic health state visually

Each disk gets its own simple visual representation.

No historical tracking.
No background daemon.
No alerts.

Just: read → interpret → draw.

Why It Exists

Because learning C++ properly means building real things.
Not just console exercises.

Qt6 was chosen to:

• Work with GUI components

• Practice layout management

• Use Qt charts / rendering

• Structure a small desktop application properly

The output is intentionally minimal — but functional.

Tech Stack

• C++

• Qt6

• Basic S.M.A.R.T. parsing

• Qt GUI rendering (pie chart per disk)

Scope

This is not a production monitoring tool.
It’s a focused educational project with a visible result.

And that’s enough.