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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">Thanks for chiming in.</p>
<p dir="auto">Yes, maybe it is the enclosure not carrying through the S.M.A.R.T information of the SSD.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is there a good simple tool to test a SSD without the S.M.A.R.T information. Smartmontools, I guess, cannot do it, right?</p>
<br><p dir="auto">On 6 Jul 2024, at 0:15, Lee Bartholomew wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">might depend on what it's plugged into... I've had that problem... from external drives by default. Not ones you make ,though some enclosures do this... </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 7:21 AM leo <<a href="mailto:smartmontools@halloleo.hailmail.net">smartmontools@halloleo.hailmail.net</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<p dir="auto">Hi there</p>
<p dir="auto">I just tried to check my new <strong>Samsung SSD 980 1TB</strong> and <code style="padding:0px 0.25em;background-color:rgb(228,228,228)">smartctl</code> does not give any SMART info back:</p>
<pre style="margin-left:15px;margin-right:15px;padding:5px;border:thin solid gray;overflow-x:auto;max-width:90vw;background-color:rgb(228,228,228)"><code style="padding:0px 0.25em;background-color:rgb(228,228,228)">$ smartctl -a disk5s1
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [Darwin 23.5.0 arm64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, <a href="http://www.smartmontools.org" target="_blank">www.smartmontools.org</a>
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: Samsung SSD 980 1TB
Serial Number: S649NU0WB52614W
Firmware Version: 3B4QFXO7
Device is: Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is: [No Information Found]
Local Time is: Fri Jul 5 22:14:49 2024 AEST
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if SMART is enabled.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
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<p dir="auto">Does this mean the device does not have SMART info or smartmontolls cannot read it or do I do something wrong?</p>
<p dir="auto">Many thanks,<br>
Leo</p>
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