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Milano
Asked: 2019-03-26 05:15:42 +0800 CST

Can't check SMART data on SSD?

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I'm trying to check SMART data. I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on Kingston A1000, M.2 - 480GB SSD.

I can check all other disks but this.

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milano@milano-PC:~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/nvme0n1p1

/dev/nvme0n1p1:
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Do you know how to check it?

ssd disk hard-drive smart 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Since SSD drives are designed to use completely different parameters than HDDs, most SMART utilities do not report SSD data correctly. The smartmontools package for linux contains a utility to scan for SSDs which will report drive health.

    Install the smartmontools package from the command line:

    sudo apt install smartmontools

    Then use the smartctl tool with the following command where X is the letter of the SSD you want to test (in your case it would be /dev/nvme0n1p1 instead of /dev/sdX):

    sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdX

    You can a short test on the SSD with this command:

    sudo smartctl -t short -a /dev/sdX

    Or also a long test with this command:

    sudo smartctl -t long -a /dev/sdX

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