DriveDx is a Mac tool for checking the built-in S.M.A.R.T. status of your drive. This program gives you access to a complete report showing various aspects regarding the current performance of your drive, such as the G-sense error rate, temperature, spin up time, and many others.
The utility helps you prevent data loss as it informs you of potential hardware problems. This way, you can have enough time to back up your important files before dealing with the imminent hardware issue.
DriveDx comes with a user-friendly interface, provides you with many useful health status details, and immediately completes the drive tests. What's more, it gives you access to a wide range of useful tips, for almost any type of test or issue.
The only thing that bothers me is the fact that it lets you export the offered information to only one file format (TXT), so popular formats like RTF or PDF aren't supported. Still, TXT is a very popular file format and compatible with a wide variety of Mac programs.
Hence, I'd say you should definitely give this utility a try if you're looking for a quick way to check the current health status of your drive.
v1.6 [Aug 4, 2017]
- Improved compatibility with macOS High Sierra (10.13).
- Added clipboard support, user can copy (right mouse click) drive general info fields (serial number, model, size, volume names, etc).
- Added support of MacBook Pro 2016-2017, iMac 2017 SSDs.
- Improved support of Apple (Toshiba-based/JMF61x) SSDs.
- Improved drive temperature evaluation.
- Improved support of Crucial M4 SSDs.
- Added support of Micron RealSSD P300 SSDs.
- Added support of Micron RealSSD P400e Enterprise SSDs.
- Added support of Micron 1100 Client SSDs.
- Added support of Samsung SSD 750 EVO SSDs.
- Added support of Samsung PM863 SSDs.
- Added support of Samsung SM863 SSDs.
- Added support of Samsung PM871/a SSDs.
- Added support of Samsung SM951 SSDs.
- Added support of Seagate HP OEM Constellation (ES/ES.2/ES.3) HDDs.
- Added support of Seagate HP OEM Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDDs.
- Added support of HP Enterprise (Intel-based) SSDs.
- Added support of Kingston HyperX Predator SSDs.
- Added support of Innodisk 3ME2 and 3MG2 SSDs.
- Added support of Innodisk 1ME3 and 3SE SSDs.
- Improved support of Intel 311/313 Series SSDs.
- Improved support of Intel 520 Series SSDs.
- Added minor tweaks and fixes.
