List of best Mac apps to check Mac Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Mini Solid State drive health.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (free)
- It will quickly measure and certify the disk.
- It will write test data and display the result as performance and status of your
- disk.
- It will continue to test writes and reads from the disk to evaluate the readability
- over the time.
- It is an optimization tool for Solid State Drive on Mac system.
- It enable TRIM functionality to non- Apple branded disks.
- It increases the durability of disk by reducing I/O writing cycles.
- It will set hibernate mode and disable the sleep image.
- It is able read SATA system profile information and it allows you to easily check
- the TRIM status.
- It is an advanced drive health diagnostic and monitoring utility.
- It not only monitor the S.M.A.R.T status but also analyse the changes of drive
- health indicators related to SSD and HDD failures.
- It gives alerts immediately if anything goes wrong.
- It provides access to all sufficient drive diagnostic data.
- It can display SSD lifetime left indicator and save driver’s health report.
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Trim Enabler
- It will bring trim to any Solid State Drive.
- It not only increases the data writing speeds but also increases the lifetime of
- SSD.
- It can monitor your disks and provide S.M.A.R.T monitor relevant statistics and
- reports.
- It reports about both Hard and Solid State Drivers.
- It has inbuilt benchmark feature that will measure SSD or hard drive speeds
- with Bench mark feature.
- It provides comprehensive benchmarking solution.
- It is useful not only for comparing the relative speeds of two different
- Macintoshes, but also used for optimizing performance on a single machine.
- It can compare thousands of submitted benchmarks by using its graphical side
- by side comparison.
- The SSD technology offer more reliable SSD’s with small maintenance.
- It contains smartctl and smartd packages to control and monitor your hard disk.
- It offers toll for real time monitoring of Hard disk.
- It analyses and informs you about the potential disk degradation and failure.
- Smartmontools supports ATA/ATAPI/ SATA-3 to 8 disks and tape devices.
- It features simple, graphical indicators to show SSD health status and to indicate
- Total Bytes Written .
- It also determines SATA and AHCI compatibility and status.
- It has bench marking feature that enables the user to test and compare the
- performance and speed.
- It has three different profiles like Maximum Performance, Maximum Capacity
- and Maximum Reliability along with detailed descriptions of each OS setting.
Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox
- It is a drive management software that allows us to monitor the drive health and
- its drive life.
- It can run full diagnostic scan quickly to test the read and write functionality of
- Intel SSD.
- It can optimize the performance of an Intel SSD using Trim functionality and it
- will update the firmware.
- It supports Secure Erase of your secondary Intel SSD.
It's great to see that others are taking care to create tools to check the health of the SSD of a Mac as well.
I am missing SSD Health Check in this list: https://itunes.apple.com/app/ssd-health-check/id1193940657
It not only delivers statistical data like unexpected power losses and failed read/write attempts, but also real time data like current temperature and more.
I highly recommend to give it a try, it is very detailed and really fast.
Samsung Magician is windows-only software per their installation guide for version 5.2.1