data, but the latter is entirely useless: it never changes! Our RAID controllers come with a GUI that logs anomalies with much better and much more useful error messages and, yes those controllers also report S.M.A.R.T. I much appreciate your attention to S.M.A.R.T.

“pssst know anyone who wants to buy a slightly used 256gb Apple drive” 😉 Definitely do your research before “popping the hood” Even if it means wading through tons of YouTube videos. Even a 128gb such as yours is a pretty useful SSD and still has years use left in it, even if you only use it as an ad hoc “Time Machine” backup drive its handy to have a bit of extra storage. tools etc and you get to use the old SSD/Flash drive in an enclosure, if you have a look around you’ll find that there are no compatible enclosures for your old drive for anything less than OWC’s prices (not cheap). OWC do kits that are the price of a “2nd Mortgage” but are good inc. You would think stick it in an enclosure and job done, well not exactly. Just “popped the top” on a 2014 MacBook Pro to change the battery (came with tools perfect!) upgraded the drive to a 1tb while I was in there, thereby hangs a problem got a 256gb hanging around perfectly fine in all respects.

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