Serial ATA Flash Drive

APS18P6Axxxx-5XXX

8

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Rev. 1.4

2.2

S.M.A.R.T.

S.M.A.R.T. is an abbreviation for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, a self-monitoring

system that provides indicators of drive health as well as potential disk problems. It serves as a warning for

users from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and displaying critical drive information. Ideally, this should

allow taking proactive actions to prevent drive failure and make use of S.M.A.R.T. information for future

product development reference.

Apacer devices use the standard SMART command B0h to read data out from the drive to activate our

S.M.A.R.T. feature that complies with the ATA/ATAPI specifications. S.M.A.R.T. Attribute IDs shall include

initial bad block count, total later bad block count, maximum erase count, average erase count, power on

hours and power cycle. When the S.M.A.R.T. Utility running on the host, it analyzes and reports the disk

status to the host before the device reaches in critical condition.

Note: attribute IDs may vary from product models due to various solution design and supporting capabilities.