Most of the time, SMART status will show “Verified”, meaning that the drive is in good condition and not in danger of failing soon. status listed in the disk information overview as seen in the image below. (SMART status of a drive will show “Verified”, “Failing” or drive error messages.)ģ) You’ll know if you’ve correctly selected the disk rather than the partition if you see the term S.M.A.R.T. If you’re not seeing your boot drive, click the View button in the upper left corner of Disk Utility and select “Show All Devices”. You’ll want to select “Apple SSD SM0256G Media” by clicking on it. On many Macs, the name of the disk might be something like “Apple SSD SM0256G Media” while the partition name is “Macintosh HD”. It’s important that you select the disk, not a partition. My personal favorite way of launching Disk Utility is to click on the Siri button in the Dock or menu bar, then say “Launch Disk Utility”.Ģ) Select the disk from the list in the left sidebar of Disk Utility (see screenshot below). From the Finder, it’s easy to go directly to Utilities by selecting Go > Utilities from the menu bar, or just use the Shift-Command-U keyboard shortcut. In addition, external and USB drives are usually not SMART-enabled.ġ) Launch Disk Utility, which is found in the Utilities folder inside of the Applications folder. For those drives, it’s doubly important to make sure that you have recent complete backups of your data. One word of warning before we get started: older Macs and drives may not have SMART-enabled drives.
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In today’s Tech Tip, I’ll show you how to check the SMART status of your internal disk storage. SMART status reports if a drive is failing and can tell you when there’s a severe problem with the disk hardware, so the Mac owner can back up important data and replace the ailing drive. Are you SMART about the health of the drives in your Mac? SMART stands for Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology, and it’s a way for a drive to report its health or problems to macOS.