Smart Information of the Disks

Samsung SSD Magician DC

This feature is used to select a specific disk connected to the system and get the SMART value of the disk. This feature will also log the temperature of the SSD and display the estimated life time of the SSD and the percentage of the available LBA to replace.

The below Command Line option will perform the SMART operation:

magician	--disk 1 --	smart
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	temperature		(use default location)
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	temperature /home/		(store the file in /home/)
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	query
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	analyzer --	start	(record data for
					Lifetime estimation)
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	analyzer --	stop	(display the estimated
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	offlineshort	Lifetime)
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	offlineshort
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	offlineextended
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	offlineselective
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	captiveshort
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	captiveextended
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	captiveselective
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	abort
magician	--disk 1 --	smart --	execute --	checkstatus
or
magician -d 1 -S
magician -d 1 -S -t				(use default location)
magician -d 1 -S -t /home/				(store the file in /home/)
magician -d 1 -S -q
magician -d 1 -S -a --		start		(record the data for Lifetime estimation)
magician -d 1 -S -a --		stop		(display the estimated Lifetime.)
magician -d 1 -S -e		--offlineshort
magician -d 1 -S -e		--offlineextended
magician -d 1 -S -e		--offlineselective
magician -d 1 -S -e		--captiveshort
magician -d 1 -S -e		--captiveextended
magician -d 1 -S -e		--captiveselective
magician -d 1 -S -e		--abort
magician -d 1 -S -e		--checkstatus

Note: If no file path is provided to -t command, temperature is logged in the file located at /usr/local/Magician/SMARTFiles/. Filename would be Log_Temperature.txt.

The default locations for Smart temperature logging files are:

Linux: /usr/local/Magician/SMARTFiles/Log_Temperature.txt

Windows: “%AppData%\Magician\SMARTFiles\Log_Temperature.txt”

To estimate the life time of the SSD, run -a command with --start option and then with --stop option. If “ID 177” of SMART information is same during --start and --stop option, then life time is displayed as infinite.

To execute the SMART Self-Test, run -e command with appropriate sub option. If --offlineshort, --offlineextended, --offlineseletive option selected, it will be stopped by --abort option. Its progress can be displayed with --checkstatus option. If --captiveshort, --captiveextended, --captiveselective option selected, it is impossible to escape the execution during the estimated time.