
Can Drive Scope check the SMART information of my external USB and FireWire devices?
Reading SMART attributes from external drives connected via USB or FireWire requires that you install the SAT SMART Driver so your Mac can ‘see’ the […]
Reading SMART attributes from external drives connected via USB or FireWire requires that you install the SAT SMART Driver so your Mac can ‘see’ the […]
Macs released over the last five years or so are now using a new internal storage connection called NVMe (or PCI-Express) for the internal SSD. […]
OWC Aura SSDs do not pass SMART data over the PCIe connection, so these drives are listed as Not Supported in Apple’s Disk Utility, and […]
SMART data relies on the hardware passing that data directly. However, RAID controllers simulate their drives to the system as logical (virtual) disks. Because they […]
There is a known issue with solid state drives produced by Toshiba for Apple. Solid state drives for these particular MacBook Airs (model numbers APPLE […]
Drive Scope can only initiate self-testing, which is internal to the drive. Any failures are handled by the drive’s internal testing mechanism. If the self-test […]
The existing SAT SMART Driver extension used to provide access to health data on external drives is limited in macOS Big Sur. We will be […]
In order to view the SMART data from external drives, third-party extensions, collectively called SAT SMART Driver, needs to be installed. With the release of […]
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