NVMe Checking App

[Paul]

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

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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

[John Rumm]

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?
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Cheers,

John.

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[Alan J. Wylie]

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.