If you buy a computer today, you are more likely to equip it with an SSD drive. These new drives are much faster than classic hard drives.
The SSD though, are more expensive and have the disadvantage of crashing unexpectedly. If you own one, you should take care of its status and there are several tools on the internet that you can use to do it.
Many of them tools available to control the health of an SSD (Solid State Drive) will give you a simple diagnosis, for example, your drive is in good shape or is OK, or something else. The tool you have may be able to give you its true wear indicator unitmaybe not. If you can't see the wear indicator for your disc with the simple, third-party tools, you can do it with some additional steps.
When a third application fails to read critical information on an SSD, it's likely to do with the drive manufacturer locking that information. Fortunately, most Solid State Drive manufacturers provide their own, free applications for checking the health of the drive, and these are the ones you should use.
See below the three most popular Solid State Drive manufacturers and their corresponding programs. If you still have an SSD from a different manufacturer, check their website for available software they may provide.
The application in question should be able to show you the deterioration and give you more details about the health of your unit than a third-party application. It is also a good idea to have the application on your system, in any case.
These applications are specific to each SSD brand. That is, the Samsung Magician application will not be able to do much if you have a corresponding Kingston disk. It may be able to perform some tests but may not be accurate.
We should also warn you that if you try to run a very hard test on an SSD from a third-party application, you may void your warranty. Only be careful and perform endurance tests only if absolutely necessary.
The indications from the diagnostic programs should be enough to tell you whether your Solid State Drive is healthy or not. Even if it is, don't stop checking it regularly. At the very least, make sure your important data has backup, so that in the event of a disk failure, you won't lose them.