News How to Check SSD Health in Windows 10 and Windows 11

[Admin]

Here are some tools that access SMART functionality on your SSD to determine its health

How to Check SSD Health in Windows 10 and Windows 11 : Read more

 

[chaz_music]

One tool that you left out is Hard Drive Sentinel that also reads and interprets SSD SMART data and gives a value for reliability. I have used this for years for regular hard drives and found the other tests and tools very valuable, including short/long self test, surface tests, thermal charting, and cleaning / wiping function. I believe they offer a trial, but I use the paid version. It also often can read through a RAID controller, and you can check on their website for which controllers it can read through. On Windows it has a GUI version, and CLI for Linux / FreeBSD. Since the CLI works on FreeBSD, it also works on TrueNAS!

Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems, predict disk failure.

www.hdsentinel.com

 

[bitbucket]

Using the default Windows method, how would you tell which disk had a problem? I tried it and it just says "OK" three times because I have three disks. So for me, at this time, it doesn't matter but what if you had 2 OK and 1 Pred Fail ? How would you know which was having the problem?

 

[USAFRet]

Using the default Windows method, how would you tell which disk had a problem? I tried it and it just says "OK" three times because I have three disks. So for me, at this time, it doesn't matter but what if you had 2 OK and 1 Pred Fail ? How would you know which was having the problem?

This is in my system, with 6x SSD:

Presumably, they would be listed in order, as they appear in Disk Management.
Disk 0, Disk 1, etc....

 

[digitalgriffin]

Thank you,

Most helpful.

 

[Makaveli]

Just checked my primary drive looks good. I picked this up in Dec 2019!

 

[Uilleam]

One tool that you left out is Hard Drive Sentinel that also reads and interprets SSD SMART data and gives a value for reliability. I have used this for years for regular hard drives and found the other tests and tools very valuable, including short/long self test, surface tests, thermal charting, and cleaning / wiping function. I believe they offer a trial, but I use the paid version. It also often can read through a RAID controller, and you can check on their website for which controllers it can read through. On Windows it has a GUI version, and CLI for Linux / FreeBSD. Since the CLI works on FreeBSD, it also works on TrueNAS!

Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems, predict disk failure.

www.hdsentinel.com

I use that program as well. I made a bootable flash drive with their DOS version to do quick checks of drives without having to boot into Windows.

 

[evanross]

The link to CrystalDiskInfo is wrong, it points to CrystalDiskMark