I don’t have much faith in Data LifeGuard when it comes to testing external drives.
Instead, the following WD/SiliconSystems document refers to a “SiliconDrive Utility” which is able to extract “SiSMART” information from the drive. “SiSMART technology … is integrated into all SiliconDrive Products.”
NAND Evolution And Its Effects On Solid-State Drive (SSD) Useable Life:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090122115715/http://www.siliconsystems.com/resources/Documents/Whitepaper/SiliconSystems_NAND_Evolution_0812.pdf
http://wdc.com/WDProducts/SSD/whitepapers/en/NAND_Evolution_0812.pdf
Unfortunately the abovementioned utility is only available to WD’s privileged business “partners”, not to their lowly end users. An alternative solution may be a utility such as HD Sentinel, HDDScan, CrystalDiskInfo, or smartmontools. The latter is arguably the most versatile and best supported SMART tool for SSDs.
