openSeaChest | Cross platform utilities

openSeaChest is a C library. openSeaChest has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However openSeaChest has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

Seagate offers both graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI) diagnostic tools for our storage devices. SeaTools for end users is the most popular GUI tools These tools support 15 languages. openSeaChest diagnostics are command line utilities which are available for expert users. These command line tools assume the user is knowledgeable about running software from the operating system command prompt. CLI tools are in the English language only and use "command line arguments" to define the various tasks and specific devices. openSeaChest diagnostics are available for both Linux and Windows environments. Linux versions of openSeaChest tools are available as stand alone 32 or 64-bit executables you can copy to your own system. Windows OS versions of openSeaChest diagnostics are also available. Technical Support for openSeaChest drive utilities is not available. If you have the time to send us some feedback about this software, especially if you notice something we should fix or improve, we would greatly appreciate hearing from you. To report your comments and suggestions, please use the issue reporting feature available in this git repository. Additionally, you can contact us through this email address seaboard @ seagate.com. Please let us know the name and version of the tool you are using. openSeaChest drive utilities support SATA, SAS, NVMe and USB interface devices. In some cases openSeaChest has successfully recognized PATA and SCSI legacy devices, although the software is not expected to do so. openSeaChest_Basics - Contains the most important tests and tools. These include Drive Self Test (DST), Device Information, simple firmware download, and a few of the simple data erasure commands.