NVMe Checking App

Jan 16, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 5 Replies
J

I've just spent an exciting 75 minutes letting Windows repair itself on my Asus Expert Book. I tried system restore and the various other options that Win 10 offers but in the end told it to reinstall from its recovery partition.



I would like to test the NVMe before putting my apps back on, everything that turns up in my searches seems to be a bench marking app but I want to know if the NVMe is OK or on its last legs.



Any suggestions? chkdsk says it's OK but I think I've only ever seen it say there were problems once so don't know if I can trust it.



Thanks.


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P

Probably something like crystaldiskinfo, and its SMART table.

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Name: CrystalDiskInfo9_5_0.zip Size: 7,754,380 bytes (7572 KiB) SHA256: 63490DEAF5F3E0BFD33E3C421A481858D9A7E11CC286A761AC63C61DFA03EE34

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The other option would be to use smartmontools and smartctl in Linux.

The dumping of "events" can be better in there. Other utilities don't tend to do stuff like that.

Paul

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J

Many SSD makers have utilities that are able to pull detailed information from their drives, and give you a report on the overall health etc. What make of drive is it?

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I came across this just a few days ago:

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"f3 is a simple tool that tests flash cards capacity and performance to see if they live up to claimed specifications. It fills the device with pseudorandom data and then checks if it returns the same on reading."

Note that this is a destructive test that will wipe any existing data on the drive. There's a docker image available for Windows.

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B

I've been using this for years. Very detailed.

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T

Without taking the thing to pieces, you wont do better than that

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