Posted on Friday, October 02 2020 @ 10:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft is pushing out Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20226 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Among other things, this release has a new feature that monitors the health of NVMe SSDs. In a blog post,
Microsoft says this feature will warn users if their solid state disk is showing signs of failure.
Attempting to recover data after drive failure is both frustrating and expensive. This feature is designed to detect hardware abnormalities for NVMe SSDs and notify users with enough time to act. It is strongly recommended that users immediately back up their data after receiving a notification.
Clicking on the notification or navigating to the drive properties page in Storage Settings (Settings -> System -> Storage -> Manage disks and volumes -> Properties) will provide additional details.
You can do the same with tools that read out the disk's SMART data, but integration with Windows 10 may be more useful for a lot of users.
