Devices Check Drive Health and SMART Status in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to check the current health, SMART status, temperature, and estimated remaining life of drives in Windows 11.

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology; often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and eMMC drives. Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.

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Contents

  • Option One: Check Health and SMART Status of NVMe SSD Drives in Settings
  • Option Two: Check Health and SMART Status of Drives using Command
  • Option Three: Check Health and SMART Status of Drives in Command Prompt at Boot


EXAMPLE: Drive failure notification

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Option One

Check Health and SMART Status of NVMe SSD Drives in Settings


Windows only monitors NVMe SSD and not SATA SSD or hard disk drives (HDD).


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Storage on the right side. (see screenshot below)


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3 Click/tap on Advanced storage settings to expand it open, and click/tap on Disks & volumes. (see screenshot below)

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4 Click/tap on Properties for a "Disk" you want to see the "Drive health" for. see screenshot below)

You will see a quick status (ex: "Healthy") under each NVMe SSD listed.


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5 You will now see the current Drive health status of the NVMe SSD. (see screenshots below)

There are three types of critical warnings:

Warning​
Description​
Spare capacity is lowSpare storage capacity is below the manufacturer's safety threshold.
Reliability is degradedReliability is degraded because of significant media-related errors or an internal error to the NVM subsystem.
Drive is set to read-onlyData stored on the device can still be accessed but you can’t write to it.

There are also three disk health attributes you can watch that affect disk performance:

Attribute​
Description​
Estimated remaining lifeThe approximate percentage used, which is based on the manufacturer’s prediction of drive life. Note that although the value is capped at 0%, a value below that is possible as consumption does not automatically mean device failure.
Available spareA normalized percentage (0% to 100%) of the remaining spare capacity available.
TemperatureTemperature of the overall device in degrees Celsius.

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Option Two

Check Health and SMART Status of Drives using Command


1 Open Windows Terminal, and select either Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.

2 Copy and paste the command below into Windows Terminal, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

wmic diskdrive get model,name,serialnumber,status

If the Status of a drive shows as OK, then no issues were found with the drive.

If the Status of a drive shows as Bad or Caution, then the drive has an imminent hardware failure.

If the Status of a drive shows as Unknown, then the drive may have an imminent hardware failure, or is having problems querying the status from the firmware of the drive.


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Option Three

Check Health and SMART Status of Drives in Command Prompt at Boot


1 Open a command prompt at boot.

2 Type the command below into the command prompt at boot, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

wmic diskdrive get model,name,serialnumber,status

If the Status of a drive shows as OK, then no issues were found with the drive.

If the Status of a drive shows as Bad or Caution, then the drive has an imminent hardware failure.

If the Status of a drive shows as Unknown, then the drive may have an imminent hardware failure, or is having problems querying the status from the firmware of the drive.


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3 When finished, close the command prompt at boot.

4 Click/tap on Continue to exit and continue to Windows 11. (see screenshot below)

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That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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Hello @Brink,

I don't have that (Drive Health). I always check my Disk with DiskInfo (CrystalDisk). Is there something wrong? I will be happy if I don't use that app anymore (a third-party app to check Disk health).

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    Win 11 Enterprise
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    Laptop
    CPU
    i7
    Hard Drives
    SSD
Hello @Brink,

I don't have that (Drive Health). I always check my Disk with DiskInfo (CrystalDisk). Is there something wrong? I will be happy if I don't use that app anymore (a third-party app to check Disk health).

Hello mate, :-)

Unfortunately, Settings will only show the status of a NVMe SSD, and not a normal SSD.

You should be able to see the status using another option though.
 

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Many thanks. :thumbsup:
 

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