I run a small computer repair business in SA. Have been installing quite a few SSDs into customer laptops recently. Some have come back with issues.

Intel and Samsung drives come with some nice manufacturer software for diagnostics.

Other manufacturers do not provide diagnostic software.

What do you guys recommend for a relatively universal testing app for SSDs?

I heard via a discussion on another forum that SMART support on SSDs is not as reliable as on phys. disks. Anyone care to comment on this?

Cheers

Jim

Wow... thanks for the help

*sigh* The irony is that I had intended to reply to your original post, but I got heavily involved in another thread (and a busy day job), and simply forgot. However your sarcastic follow-up does nothing to make me (and likely others too) want to spend time on this now, due to the lack of appreciation that it shows.

I'm only replying now to suggest (to you and other readers who see this thread) that in future, a polite one-time follow-up like: "Hey folks, I know you're busy, but do you have any ideas?" would probably be a more productive approach than sarcasm - it would have got you at least one response here, for example.

Anyway, even though I won't be participating, good luck with your interesting questions.

Briefly, SSDs have issues as well, mostly firmware related. Not easy to troubleshoot or recover data from.
Generally, SMART attributes are not always reliable, especially once a drive is failed.

Want to understand why these drives you install come back? Lots of reading, research and hands-on testing will start clarifying some things..

_________________
Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Drive (SSD, SATA, NVMe, etc), USB Flash Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts