Fast SSD Health check
I found this on the internet. You need smartmontools, sed, awk and bc installed.
#!/bin/bash
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# Variables #
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SSD_DEVICE="/dev/sda"
ON_TIME_TAG="Power_On_Hours"
WEAR_COUNT_TAG="Wear_Leveling_Count"
LBAS_WRITTEN_TAG="Total_LBAs_Written"
LBA_SIZE=512 # Value in bytes
BYTES_PER_MB=1048576
BYTES_PER_GB=1073741824
BYTES_PER_TB=1099511627776
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# Get total data written… #
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# Get SMART attributes
SMART_INFO=$(sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -A "$SSD_DEVICE")
# Extract required attributes
ON_TIME=$(echo "$SMART_INFO" | grep "$ON_TIME_TAG" | awk '{print $10}')
WEAR_COUNT=$(echo "$SMART_INFO" | grep "$WEAR_COUNT_TAG" | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/^0*//')
LBAS_WRITTEN=$(echo "$SMART_INFO" | grep "$LBAS_WRITTEN_TAG" | awk '{print $10}')
# Convert LBAs -> bytes
BYTES_WRITTEN=$(echo "$LBAS_WRITTEN * $LBA_SIZE" | bc)
MB_WRITTEN=$(echo "scale=3; $BYTES_WRITTEN / $BYTES_PER_MB" | bc)
GB_WRITTEN=$(echo "scale=3; $BYTES_WRITTEN / $BYTES_PER_GB" | bc)
TB_WRITTEN=$(echo "scale=3; $BYTES_WRITTEN / $BYTES_PER_TB" | bc)
# Output results…
echo "------------------------------"
echo " SSD Status: $SSD_DEVICE"
echo "------------------------------"
echo " On time: $(echo $ON_TIME | sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta') hr"
echo "------------------------------"
echo " Data written:"
echo " MB: $(echo $MB_WRITTEN | sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta')"
echo " GB: $(echo $GB_WRITTEN | sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta')"
echo " TB: $(echo $TB_WRITTEN | sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta')"
echo "------------------------------"
echo " Mean write rate:"
echo " MB/hr: $(echo "scale=3; $MB_WRITTEN / $ON_TIME" | bc | sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta')"
echo "------------------------------"
echo " Drive health: ${WEAR_COUNT} %"
echo "------------------------------"hdparm
hdparm is a command line utility to set and view hardware parameters of hard disk drives. hdparm can also be used as a simple benchmarking tool. To get information about hard disks, run the following:
# hdparm -I /dev/sdaPower management configuration
Overly aggressive power management can reduce the lifespan of hard drives due to frequent parking and spindowns.
| -B | Set the Advanced Power Management feature. Possible values are between 1 and 255, low values mean more aggressive power management and higher values mean better performance. Values from 1 to 127 permit spin-down, whereas values from 128 to 254 do not. A value of 255 completely disables the feature. |
| -S | Set the standby (spindown) timeout for the drive. The timeout specifies how long to wait in idle (with no disk activity) before turning off the motor to save power. The value of 0 disables spindown, the values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of 5 seconds and values from 241 to 251 specify multiples of 30 minutes. |
| -M | Set the Automatic Acoustic Management feature. Most modern hard disk drives have the ability to speed down the head movements to reduce their noise output. The possible value depends on the disk, some disks may not support this feature. |
To query current value of -B, pass the parameter without a value:
# hdparm -B /dev/sdaTo apply different value, for example set APM to 127:
# hdparm -B 127 /dev/sdaPower off a hard disk drive
A typical usage case, where such a feature is looked for, is with disks connected to a cheap external USB/SATA/FireWire enclosure, or bridge. If it does not properly issue a stop command to the drive when turning off the power switch, the drive is forced to do an emergency head retract. Regularly doing that will, sooner or later, break the drive. One solution is, after one is sure the data has been written to the media, to run a command to power off the drive:
# hdparm -Y /dev/sdXWarning: Be absolutely sure
* the data was actually written to the media. It is also advised to wait
some time so that the drive will become idle.
* the device, /dev/sdX in the example, is the one you want to power
off.