Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox 3.2.1 | 35.79 MB
Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox is a handy and powerful utility designed to enable you to manage your Intel SSDs.
The Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox (Intel SSD Toolbox) provides the following functional capabilities:
Accessing Intel SSD management features (Intel SSD Optimizer, System Configuration Tuner and Secure Erase)
Reporting the drive identification data for Intel SSDs, as well as other drives.
Accessing the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes for Intel SSDs, as well as other drives.
Checking the SMART thresholds and viewing recommended actions for Intel SSDs, as well as other drives.
Running diagnostic scans on Intel SSDs to check for any READ or WRITE errors.
When opened, the Intel SSD Toolbox displays the following screen with the name and capacity of each drive on your PC, as well as the following options:
Intel SSD Management Tools - Enables monitoring and managing of any Intel SSDs associated with this computer.
View Drive Information - Displays the model number, serial number and firmware number for each drive on the system. It also lists the ATA and SATA capabilities for the selected drive.
Check SMART Attributes - Lists the SMART features and their respective thresholds, and, if necessary, indicates any action to take.
Run Fast Diagnostic Scan - Analyzes the first 1.5 GB of an SSD to determine whether there are any READ or WRITE errors.
Run Full Diagnostic Scan - Analyzes the complete SSD to determine whether there are any READ or WRITE errors or any bad blocks.
Changelog 3.2.1
This release of the Intel SSD Toolbox includes firmware updates for both Intel SSD DC S3700 and S3500 products with the following changes:
In the unlikely event that a drive fails, the drive will now report the correct serial number and actual capacity. The error code is available in ID block word 140 and GPL address 0xDD
When a power off is less than 500ms the drive will automatically reset and allow proper drive enumeration
Support for both 512B and 4KB physical sector size
As blocks are retired, the SMART E 8h value will decrease linearly
After a power cycle, timed workload variables will resume from the last saved values and update after 60 minutes and every minute thereafter SMART Attribute 05h now has a normalized value of 100
SMART Attribute C2h now reports the correct temperature
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