I'm trying to get a detailed SMART status report on the drives in my Mac. I'm not talking about 'Verified,' I'm talking about the detailed report that's about 100 lines long listing all the vital. (There must be a way to find this under OS X at the command line.) Here is an example of the output. Mac Hard Drive Testing Tools and SMART. Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup Jun 21 st, 2011 guide & tech 5 min read Solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming commonplace, and the first time you use one as a boot drive, you realise why - they’re faster than hard drives to a ridiculous degree.
| Feature | DriveDx | SMART Reporter | SMART Utility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | DriveDx | SMART Reporter | SMART Utility |
| Drive Overall Health Rating | |||
| Drive Overall Performance Rating | |||
| SSD Lifetime Left Indicator | |||
| I/O errors monitoring | |||
| Interactive help hints for all drive health indicators (SMART attributes) | |||
| Detects (HDD / SSD) drive health states: | 4 | 2 | 3 / 2 |
| OK | |||
| Warning | |||
| Failing (pre-fail) | / | ||
| Failed (one or more thresholds exceeded) | |||
| HDD health status evaluation based on next criteria: | |||
| built-in S.M.A.R.T. status | |||
| SMART attributes statistically closely related to HDD failures | |||
| health indicators proximity to threshold | |||
| measurements history | |||
| SSD health status evaluation based on next criteria: | |||
| built-in S.M.A.R.T. status | |||
| SMART attributes statistically closely related to SSD failures | |||
| health indicators proximity to thresholds | |||
| measurements history | |||
| SMART attribute statuses: | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| OK | |||
| Warning | |||
| Failing (pre-fail) | |||
| Failed (threshold exceeded) | |||
| SoftRAID support | |||
| SMART attribute (health indicator) value proximity to threshold in percent (status bar) Learn more | |||
| Automatic tracking of drive SMART attribute values approximation to thresholds. Automated alerting if value is close to threshold Learn more | * (* requires manual per attribute setup) | ||
| Save report to text file | |||
| Temperature statistics | |||
| Drive Self-tests | |||
| S.M.A.R.T. error log | |||
| Device Statistics | |||
| Automatic Email Notifications | |||
| with attached full detailed report | |||
| Send email notification: | |||
| when drive failed | |||
| when drive failing | |||
| on warning (health related issues found) | |||
| on drive heath rating threshold reached | |||
| on performance rating threshold reached | |||
| on SSD lifetime left threshold reached | |||
| when drive self-test completed | |||
| Periodic status reports | Only 1 per day, without detailed full report |
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