Is your SSD healthy, lets check it
We often hear “Stay healthy ”, the more healthy you are, the more happy you will be and will be able to do your day to day tasks easily, in a similar manner the health of an SSD is of crucial for its optimal functioning.
Health of an SSD can be measured with the help of a package named smartmontools through which we can quickly get an overview of the health of our SSD
In mac it can be installed by below command
brew install smartmontools
There is a term called S.M.A.R.T which stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, it associates with the reliability of the SSD
Lets dive in and run a quick health check
Hurray, we can check above the self-assessment passed the test, if it not PASSED, something is going wrong with the SSD for sure
Now lets print some S.M.A.R.T attributes of my SSD
Just type the command smartctl -a (disk name)
Above we can notice various SMART attributes associated with the SSD.
