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    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 16 23:24:56 2025
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    I've just spent an exciting 75 minutes letting Windows repair itself on my
    Asus Expert Book. I tried system restore and the various other options
    that Win 10 offers but in the end told it to reinstall from its recovery partition.

    I would like to test the NVMe before putting my apps back on, everything
    that turns up in my searches seems to be a bench marking app but I want to
    know if the NVMe is OK or on its last legs.

    Any suggestions? chkdsk says it's OK but I think I've only ever seen it
    say there were problems once so don't know if I can trust it.

    Thanks.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    This joke was so funny when I heard it for the first time I fell of my dinosaur.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Thu Jan 16 19:01:07 2025
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    On Thu, 1/16/2025 6:24 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I've just spent an exciting 75 minutes letting Windows repair itself on my Asus Expert Book. I tried system restore and the various other options that Win 10 offers but in the end told it to reinstall from its recovery partition.

    I would like to test the NVMe before putting my apps back on, everything that turns up in my searches seems to be a bench marking app but I want to know if the NVMe is OK or on its last legs.

    Any suggestions? chkdsk says it's OK but I think I've only ever seen it say there were problems once so don't know if I can trust it.

    Thanks.


    Probably something like crystaldiskinfo, and its SMART table.

    https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

    https://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/crystaldiskinfo/9.5.0/CrystalDiskInfo9_5_0.zip?viasf=1

    Name: CrystalDiskInfo9_5_0.zip
    Size: 7,754,380 bytes (7572 KiB)
    SHA256: 63490DEAF5F3E0BFD33E3C421A481858D9A7E11CC286A761AC63C61DFA03EE34

    [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/vZW3D5DP/crystal-disk-info-970-EVOPlus-500-GB-NVMe.gif

    *******

    The other option would be to use smartmontools and smartctl in Linux.

    The dumping of "events" can be better in there. Other utilities
    don't tend to do stuff like that.

    Paul

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  • From John Rumm@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Fri Jan 17 00:20:58 2025
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    On 16/01/2025 23:24, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I've just spent an exciting 75 minutes letting Windows repair itself on
    my Asus Expert Book. I tried system restore and the various other
    options that Win 10 offers but in the end told it to reinstall from its recovery partition.

    I would like to test the NVMe before putting my apps back on, everything
    that turns up in my searches seems to be a bench marking app but I want
    to know if the NVMe is OK or on its last legs.

    Any suggestions? chkdsk says it's OK but I think I've only ever seen it
    say there were problems once so don't know if I can trust it.

    Many SSD makers have utilities that are able to pull detailed
    information from their drives, and give you a report on the overall
    health etc. What make of drive is it?

    --
    Cheers,

    John.

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  • From Alan J. Wylie@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Fri Jan 17 09:26:28 2025
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    "Jeff Gaines" <[email protected]> writes:

    I've just spent an exciting 75 minutes letting Windows repair itself
    on my Asus Expert Book. I tried system restore and the various other
    options that Win 10 offers but in the end told it to reinstall from
    its recovery partition.

    I would like to test the NVMe before putting my apps back on,
    everything that turns up in my searches seems to be a bench marking
    app but I want to know if the NVMe is OK or on its last legs.

    Any suggestions? chkdsk says it's OK but I think I've only ever seen
    it say there were problems once so don't know if I can trust it.

    I came across this just a few days ago:

    https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3

    "f3 is a simple tool that tests flash cards capacity and performance to
    see if they live up to claimed specifications. It fills the device with pseudorandom data and then checks if it returns the same on reading."

    Note that this is a destructive test that will wipe any existing data on
    the drive. There's a docker image available for Windows.

    --
    Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ mailto:<[email protected]>

    Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is.
    Security is inversely proportional to convenience

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