Chapter 8: Maintaining Physical Devices ● 90Working with Solid State DrivesYou can use Adaptec Storage Manager to check the status of the SSDs in your system. You canuse this information to verify the health of your SSDs and to predict drive failures.For MaxIQ-compatible SSDs, Adaptec Storage Manager displays SMART statistics for the driveusing Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. It also displays wear-level andlongevity indicators. For non-MaxIQ-compatible SSDs, Adaptec Storage Manager displays thesame set of statistics except for longevity.Note: For more on using MaxIQ in Adaptec Storage Manager, see Configuring the MaxIQ Cache onpage 78 and Logging Statistics for Remote Analysis on page 119. For a list of MaxIQ-compatibleSolid State Drives, see www.adaptec.com/compatibility.To view the SMART statistics for a SSD, select the drive in the Physical Devices View, click theProperties button, then select the Smart tab. To view wear-level and longevity indicators forthe SSD, select the Status tab.What do the SMART statistics and wear-level indicators mean?Name DescriptionPower-On Hours Number of power-on hours over life of device.Power Cycle Count Number of power-cycle events over life of device.Available Reserved Space Number of remaining reserve blocks.Reallocated Sector Count Number of bad sectors.Host Writes Number of sectors written by the host (1 sector = 512bytes); increases by 1 for every 65536 sectors written.SSD wear-level andlongevity indicators
