Like Solidigm's other SSDs, the P44 Pro works with their Storage Tool. This free downloadable utility is an easy way for users to obtain information about their drives. Additionally, it can be used to update their drives' firmware, run diagnostic scans and perform a secure erase.
When you run Solidigm's Storage Tool, the main screen displays information about your drives. From here, you can view information like the model number, serial number, firmware version, which storage controller the drive is using, temperature and the estimated remaining life. You can even see which volumes are on the drive and how much of the total capacity they are using.
Using Solidigm's Storage Tool, you can download and apply firmware updates to your drives. The software also gives you the ability to run two different diagnostic scans, quick and full. The quick diagnostics scan checks a small portion of the drive for read errors and then performs a brief data integrity scan. Usually, this test is completed in about three minutes. The full diagnostics scan checks every logical block address (LBA) for read errors and then uses all of the free space for a data integrity scan. Needless to say, the full scan takes much longer to complete.
The Storage Tool also includes a Secure Erase feature that will permanently delete all of the data on an SSD. It eliminates the user data section of the drive as well as the reserve data area, rendering data remnants virtually unrecoverable.
Last but not least, the Storage Tool can be used to display your drive's standard identification as well as its SMART attributes.
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