Article ID: 000056580 Content Type: Maintenance & Performance Last Reviewed: 03/18/2022

How to Get the SMART Attributes of an Intel® SSD using the Intel® Memory and Storage Tool GUI and CLI

Environment

Windows Server 2016 Family*, Windows 11* Family, Windows Server 2022 Family, Other Linux family*, Red Hat Linux family*, SUSE Linux family*, Windows 7 family*, Windows 8.1 family*, Windows 8 family*, Windows® 10 family, Windows 2000 family*, Windows Server 2008 family*, Windows Server 2008 R2 family*, Windows Server 2012 family*

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Summary

Steps to retrieve the SMART attributes from the Intel® Memory and Storage Tool (Intel® MAS) Graphic User Interface (GUI) and CLI

Description

Looking to find out if any of the available tools from Intel are working to retrieve SMART from Intel® SSD.

Resolution

Intel® Memory and Storage Tool GUI

  1. Download the Intel® Memory and Storage Tool GUI.
  2. Select the drive on the left panel.
  3. Select the Drive Details option under the Select a Feature dropdown menu.
  4. The SMART attributes will be displayed in the tool's window. To export the information click the Export button.

 

Intel® Memory and Storage Tool CLI (Command-Line Interface)

Download the Intel® Memory and Storage Tool CLI (Command-Line Interface)

Windows*

  1. Open a command prompt window.

    Right-click Windows Start then click Command Prompt (Admin).

    or

    Click Windows Start, then type cmd and right-click the Command Prompt tile, then click Run as administrator.

  2. Identify Intel® SSDs as below.

    Run the DISKPART utility from C:\ as below.

    diskpart [Enter]. This opens DISKPART utility as below.

    DISKPART> list disk Expect a response such as:

    Disk 0 Online 298 GB

    Disk 1, Disk 2, and so on.

    Choose the Intel® SSD from the list above. In the example above it is Disk 0 . So index 0 will be used in all the next commands.

    To get out of the DISKPART utility, type Exit.

  3. Using Intel® MAS to display SSD information.

    C:\intelmas>intelmas.exe show -intelssd 0

    Example results:

    ProductFamily and SerialNumber of the Intel SSD

    DevicePath:

    DeviceStatus: Healthy

    Firmware:

    FirmwareUpdateAvailable:

    Index:

    ModelNumber:

    ProductFamily

    SerialNumber:

  4. Displaying SMART attributes.

    For SATA drives:
    intelmas.exe show -smart -intelssd 0

    For NVMe*/PCIe* drives:
    intelmas.exe show –nvmelog SmartHealthInfo -intelssd 0

    Copy-paste the screen scroll into a text file and provide this to support agents.

Linux*

  1. Open terminal with root permission.

    sudo su

    Ensure that the command line interface begins with # and not $; as this indicates use has root privileges.

  2. Displaying SMART attributes.

    For SATA drives:
    intelmas show -smart -intelssd 0

    Copy-paste the screen scroll into a text file and provide to support agents or redirect to a file as below:

    intelmas show -smart -intelssd 0 > intelssdsmart.txt

    For PCIe* drives:
    intelmas show –nvmelog SmartHealthInfo -intelssd 0 > intelssdsmart.txt

     

      Additional information

      To learn how to read the SMART attributes information, refer to the following articles: 

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