As you may already know, the Mac operating system (macOS) does not natively support displaying or reporting SMART data information for connected external USB storage […]
If you decide to install the SAT SMART Driver on your Apple Silicon Mac, you will need to follow the following instructions. Because it is […]
Reading SMART attributes from external drives connected via USB or FireWire requires that you install the SAT SMART Driver extension so your Mac can ‘see’ […]
Macs released over the past decade use a new internal storage connection called NVMe (nonvolatile memory express) or PCI-Express for their internal SSDs. To ensure […]
There is a known issue with solid state drives (SSDs) produced by Toshiba for certain MacBook Air models. Specifically, SSDs with the model numbers APPLE SSD […]
Drive Scope can only initiate the self-testing process, which is managed internally by the drive itself. If the drive’s internal testing mechanism detects an error […]
The current SAT SMART Driver extension used to access health data on external drives has limitations in macOS 11 ‘Big Sur’. If your Mac supports […]
Techtool Pro, Lifespan and Drive Scope require a third party extension, the SAT SMART Driver extension, to display health data from an external USB (or […]
Unfortunately, OWC Aura SSDs do not pass SMART data over the PCIe connection, which means these storage devices are listed as Not Supported in Apple’s […]
SMART data relies on the hardware passing that data directly. However, RAID controllers simulate their drives as logical (virtual) disks to the system, which means […]
