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SSD Fan Control VS Stats

Compare SSD Fan Control VS Stats and see what are their differences

SSD Fan Control logo SSD Fan Control

Sometimes Mac users have to heavily rely on the external hardware system in order to control and monitor the performance of the fan of the Mac.

Stats logo Stats

Simple macOS system monitor in your menu bar.
  • SSD Fan Control Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-02
  • Stats Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-09

SSD Fan Control videos

Solving Heating Issue in Macbook using SSD Fan Control App

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Stats videos

AP Stats - Cram Review (2019)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SSD Fan Control and Stats)
Monitoring Tools
14 14%
86% 86
Log Management
14 14%
86% 86
OS & Utilities
100 100%
0% 0
Device Management
15 15%
85% 85

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Stats seems to be a lot more popular than SSD Fan Control. While we know about 94 links to Stats, we've tracked only 4 mentions of SSD Fan Control. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SSD Fan Control mentions (4)

  • Questions about saving/re-using an old Mac.
    5) your fans may run on high after replacement of the drive because the lack Apple specific temp sensors. You can get a utility called ssd fan control set it to smart control and to start up with the system. You won’t have to worry about loud fans after that. Source: over 1 year ago
  • 2011 iMac - 10.13.6 This starts on part of or entire display. Relaunch of Finder stops it sometimes. Any ideas what's causing it ?
    Keep in mind that when you swap the HDD on these iMacs, you'll lose the thermal control on the hard disk. Download this app and run it using the default settings. This will prevent your iMac from sounding like a jet engine and run the fan speeds to default. Source: over 2 years ago
  • What solid state hard drives are compatible with Macs?
    You may also find that the fans spin up loud and persistently if all you do is a straight swap. The app "SSD Fan Control" will sort this out for you. https://exirion.net/ssdfanctrl/. Source: about 3 years ago
  • Dell fan control?
    It's possible to switch between two fan modes with "SSD fan controll" in macOS. Not sure if it'll work with FakeSMC, I'm on VirtualSMC. But I can't turn off EC. The only thing it does is that it writes fan values faster than the EC. Source: about 3 years ago

Stats mentions (94)

  • Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
    Its not a terminal app like bottom or nvtop but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats and it has iGPU stats. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
    I’ve found stats [1] to be a great open source alternative to the iStat Menus system monitor app mentioned in the article. [1] https://github.com/exelban/stats. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • A standalone Activity Monitor alternative that isn't on the menu bar and shows stats for individual apps and groups processes by app?
    Have not used it for quite some time, and I think it was launching the Mac system monitor , it does don't have its own widow , but you can check this https://github.com/exelban/stats. Source: 10 months ago
  • iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 Address Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities, Make Sure to Update
    Install stats and put it in your menu bar. It will show the top processes. If my battery is going down quicker than usual I check there and it is usually some hungry tab in Firefox. But I've also noticed bluetoothd using way more CPU than I would expect. Source: 10 months ago
  • Any better-looking alternatives for iStats menu?
    Don't know about 'better looking', but I use https://github.com/exelban/stats. Source: 11 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SSD Fan Control and Stats, you can also consider the following products

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

iStat Menus - "An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar."

smcFanControl - [Download] smcFanControl 2.

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

iMac HDD Fan Control - iMac HDD Fan Control is an HDD fan control for the Mac operating systems by using which the Mac users can control the speed and noise of the fan of the Mac.

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.