Situatie
SSDs are considerably faster than traditional hard drives, but they are not immune to failure.Monitoring an SSD can help identify warning signs before a storage problem becomes a data-loss emergency.
Check Windows First
Windows provides basic storage information without requiring third-party software.
Open:
Settings → System → Storage → Advanced storage settings → Disks & volumes
Depending on the drive and Windows version, additional health information may be available through system storage-management tools.
Use PowerShell
Administrators can also retrieve storage information using PowerShell.Useful commands include:
Get-PhysicalDisk
and:
Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter
Hardware and driver support determine how much information Windows can expose.
Understand SMART
SSDs maintain internal diagnostic information commonly associated with SMART. Depending on the manufacturer and interface, this can include:
- temperature
- power-on hours
- unsafe shutdowns
- media errors
- spare capacity
- data written
- remaining endurance.
NVMe drives expose particularly useful health information.
Manufacturer Utilities
For important systems, the SSD manufacturer’s own management utility is often worth installing.Vendor software may provide firmware updates, diagnostics and endurance information that generic utilities cannot fully interpret.
Investigate immediately if you experience:
- files becoming corrupted
- repeated I/O errors
- Windows freezing during disk activity
- the SSD disappearing intermittently
- SMART critical warnings
- increasing media errors.
SSD Health is not a Backup
A drive can report normal health and still fail unexpectedly.SMART monitoring reduces uncertainty; it does not guarantee future reliability.Important information should always exist in more than one location.
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