Monitor SSD health and SMART status in Linux

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Get S.M.A.R.T Information for the Transcend Embedded SATA/NVMe SSD product.

This sample code demonstrates how to get the disk information of the solid state drives (SSD) in Linux,
include identify information (model name, firmware version and serial number, etc.) ,
S.M.A.R.T information (temperature, erase count and power-on hours, etc.) and Health information.

Note : The project works for Transcend Embedded SSD products.

Build Guide

• compile the executable file

    g++ -Wformat=0 -std=c++11 -static main.cpp nvme_util.cpp -o SMARTQuery_Cmd

• use <chmod +x> for sure you have proper right to execute the executable file

    chmod +x SMARTQuery_Cmd

    sudo ./SMARTQuery_Cmd

Usage

• SMARTQuery_Cmd
  show all information of devices

• SMARTQuery_Cmd [option] <device>
  show specific information of the device by option

  • Options:
    • -all: list all information of the device
    • -id: get id table information of the device
    • -smart: get S.M.A.R.T table information of the device
    • -health: get the health information of the device
    • -license: display the End User License Agreement and Statement
    • -v: display the application version

For NVMe SSD :

 sudo ./SMARTQuery_Cmd [option] /dev/nvme0n1

For SATA SSD :

 sudo ./SMARTQuery_Cmd [option] /dev/sda

Get ID , SMART and Health information by following command for NVMe SSD.

Get ID , SMART and Health information by following command for SATA SSD.