Every disk carries its own health report and hides it in raw numbers. GSmartControl lists the attributes in plain language, highlights the dangerous ones, runs short and long self tests, and keeps the reports for comparison.

Blender Benchmark is the Blender Foundation open source render benchmark, measuring Cycles performance on fixed scenes for CPU and GPU, with scores that can be uploaded anonymously to Open Data and compared with machines worldwide.

UEFITool opens a firmware image layer by layer into volumes, modules and drivers, can extract or replace a module, and runs on all three desktop systems.

Flashrom identifies and reads or writes the flash chip on a board, either through the internal interface or with an external programmer, and asks for a backup first.

GParted 1.8.1 is the stable release listed on the project page, with the live boot image numbered 1.8.1-6. Published as free software under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, it resizes, copies and moves partitions without losing data.