{"id":30543,"date":"2025-07-22T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30543"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:49:59","slug":"how-to-access-your-hard-drives-s-m-a-r-t-data-on-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-access-your-hard-drives-s-m-a-r-t-data-on-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Access Your Hard Drives’ S.M.A.R.T. Data on Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to Access Your Hard Drives’ S.M.A.R.T. Data on Windows 11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Accessing S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data allows you to check the health and predict potential failures of your hard drives and SSDs. While Windows offers some basic built-in tools, third-party software and manufacturer utilities provide much more detailed information.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s how you can access S.M.A.R.T. data on Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

Windows 11 provides a quick, high-level check of your drive’s health, which relies on S.M.A.R.T. data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to Settings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on System in the left sidebar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on Storage in the right pane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scroll down and click on Advanced storage settings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on Disks & volumes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"How<\/span><\/p>\n

Look under the drive you’re checking (normally you’ll check “Windows C” and “System”). You’ll see a short description and the drive status: “Healthy,” “Warning,” or “Bad.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  How to Access Your Hard Drives’ S.M.A.R.T. Data on Windows 11 Accessing S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data allows you to check the health and predict potential failures of your hard drives and SSDs. While Windows offers some basic built-in tools, third-party software and manufacturer utilities provide much more detailed information. Here’s how you can access\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4383,4298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30545,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions\/30545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}