A consequence of the previous point is that some "universal" disk analysis programs, especially those that have not been updated in a long time or those designed primarily for hard drives, may incorrectly report the status of SSDs.Although you can see a list and explanation of the "basic" SMART attributes in various sources, such as Wikipedia:, however, these attributes are also written and interpreted differently by different manufacturers: for one, a high number of errors in a particular partition can mean problems with the SSD, for another, it is simply a characteristic of the data that is written there exactly.Some of them are simply not defined for SSDs from other manufacturers. Different vendors can use different SMART attributes.
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There are many free programs for reading SMART attributes, but a novice user may run into some trouble trying to figure out what each attribute means, as well as a few others: The idea is for the disk controller itself to record information about status, errors that have occurred, and other service information that can be used to verify the SSD. SSD health and error checks are based on self-diagnostic data SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, the technology originally appeared for hard drives, where it is still used today).