How To Check The Health of your Mac's SSD (Full Guide)

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How can you check the health of your Mac's SSD? It's easy! Just a few minutes in the Terminal app, and you'll be able to find out. I'll also discuss how long your SSD might last, and show you how to work out how much data you write to your SSD every day.

How long will your MacBook's SSD last [video]:

Download smartmontools:
Download DriveDx:

Terminal command prompts:
cd /usr/local/sbin
ls -1
diskutil list
./smartctl -a /dev/disk0 (or whatever your disk is called

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Chapters:
00:00 How to use Smartmontools
01:38 Use Terminal to Check SSD Health
04:24 Using DriveDx
05:07 How to tell what condition your SSD is in
08:26 How to find out how much data you write each day

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