Check the health of your Mac SSD with DriveDX

Knowing the health of your disk is important for many reasons, but most modern Macs now have the SSD drive soldered to the logic board, which means if the SSD fails, the entire logic board has to be replaced - much easier than simply replacing drives more expensive repairs. By checking the health of your SSD, you can address problems ahead of time, back up your data, and at least consider your repair options without a catastrophic situation.

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DriveDX offers a free trial that allows you to see the current health of your SSD. If you want to continue using DriveDX after the two-week trial period, you can pay.

Open DriveDX and you'll get an overview of your drive, including overall health rating, SMART status, and lifespan indicators.

You can further drill down into other metrics of drive health, including temperature readings, drive reads and writes, power cycles, on-time, and more, by selecting the Health Metrics option from the left sidebar.

Fortunately, the soldered flash drives used on modern Macs have a long lifespan, as shown in the screenshot taken for this article, based on the percentage of life used, the The first-generation Retina MacBook Air SSD only used 4% of its estimated lifespan. It’s been good for nearly 4 years of continuous use!

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