Retrieve health information e.g. SMART, remaining live, reallocated sectors etc for all types of HDD, SSD, NvME etc

Darren Rose 261

Any suggestions on reliable solutions to retrieve health information e.g. SMART, remaining live, reallocated sectors etc for all types of HDD, SSD, NvME etc

Tried smartmontools but doesn't work for a lot of NvME drives as get "IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY(NVMe) failed, Error=1" error

CrystalDiskInfo seems to work better, but source is in C++ I believe and I am looking for a way to do this from a VB or C# app.

Also tried WMI but doesn't seem to contain much useful info for new drives.

Any thoughts please?

RLWA32 47,521 Reputation points

2025-03-09T15:51:08.8966667+00:00

Just guessing -- Maybe you could use database for smartmontools that is from a current Linux distro.
Darren Rose 261 Reputation points

2025-03-09T15:53:13.53+00:00

not sure how that resolves error that smartmontools cannot see access information from some NVMe drivers as above?
RLWA32 47,521 Reputation points

2025-03-09T16:05:39.0933333+00:00

Maybe info here would be helpful - https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/NVMe_Support
Darren Rose 261 Reputation points

2025-03-09T16:13:02.08+00:00

Yes I had seen that page but still doesn't work as most machines I have for testing use Intel RST
RLWA32 47,521 Reputation points

2025-03-09T17:29:20.8066667+00:00

From what I saw it doesn't appear that there are a whole lot of options and even fewer if you want managed code.
Darren Rose 261 Reputation points

2025-03-09T17:30:54.94+00:00

not it seems only expensive SDK's like HWiNFO or similar are the solution to getting reliable information on disks

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