HWiNFO64 Shows DRIVE FAILURE in red "YES"

Lenovo Thinkpad P51. 3 months old. win 10 pro 1703. Each day for the past three months I fire up HWiNFO64 and it shows all good. Today when I did it it showed for the SSD DRIVE FAILURE in red "YES". Lenovo tech support chat was a PIA. Thought I would check here and see what you all thought. When I ran S.M.A.R.T. drive status from the command prompt all was good. Coincidentally when I ran a diagnostic the other day it showed (if I am reading it correctly) all good:

SAMSUNG MZVPW256HEGL-000L7
TEST_DEVICE_READ_TEST:::1.1.11:::e:::1 PassedTEST_SMART_WEAROUT_TEST:::1.1.14:::::1 Passed

I assume that the above info was a check of the SSD.

Lenovo chat said they could not access my IMGUR links but they work fine however I am including drop box links as well. Anyone know how often HWiNFO64 might give a false positive? TIA.

https://imgur.com/a/giayi

https://imgur.com/a/BBjTb

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ih1i4z56ya...Imgur.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkttbl1lhu...Imgur.jpg?dl=0

Run CrystalDiskInfo Crystal Dew World and post a screenshot.

Crystal Disk showed good as well as a 45 minute full Lenovo Diagnostic hardware scan and the above pic from running wmic diskdrive get status from the cmd prompt . I am beginning to think that the HWINFO ver. 5.72-3333 is giving me a false positive.

Lenovo Diag. Results:

SAMSUNG MZVPW256HEGL-000L7 - 238.47 GBs - SuccessDevice Tests：Device Read TestSuccessSmart Wearout TestSuccessDevice Write TestSuccess

Do NVMe drives not report the current/worst/threshold values like you see in my screenshot? Just curious if you have another drive whether those columns are displayed.

PolarNettles said:

Do NVMe drives not report the current/worst/threshold values like you see in my screenshot? Just curious if you have another drive whether those columns are displayed.

Honestly this is the first time I have used the app and even when you wrote current/ worst/ I can not tell what you are referring to in your screen shot above. I do have another drive (HDD) in the machine. I am posting screen shots below. Tell me if that was the kind of info you were looking for. And as far as what NVMe drives do and do not report I do not have the answer for that. The Crystal window would not maximize so the second screenshot shows the cropped portion.

I'm referring to the current/worst/threshold columns in the middle of your last screenshot. I just wanted to check if you had hidden those columns in your NVMe screenshot since those are the values that actually determine if there's a failure.

PolarNettles said:

I'm referring to the current/worst/threshold columns in the middle of your last screenshot. I just wanted to check if you had hidden those columns in your NVMe screenshot since those are the values that actually determine if there's a failure.

Oh. OK, well that was obvious. So I guess the conclusion is that the SAMSUNG MZVPW256HEGL-000L7 SSD does not show that info in Crystal. Is that then your take away as well?

It may be that these utilities don't yet fully support the SMART data format that the SM961 uses. I see Tom's review also shows the same thing - Samsung SM961 SSD - Performance Test Results

I suspect that's why HWINFO shows the failure. If the Samsung utility shows no problems then I would trust it.

PolarNettles said:

It may be that these utilities don't yet fully support the SMART data format that the SM961 uses. I see Tom's review also shows the same thing - Samsung SM961 SSD - Performance Test Results

I suspect that's why HWINFO shows the failure. If the Samsung utility shows no problems then I would trust it.

Good Tom's article. In my first post to refresh I said,"Lenovo Thinkpad P51. 3 months old. win 10 pro 1703. Each day for the past three months I fire up HWiNFO64 and it shows all good."

So that was why I was concerned. For 90 days no red flags then WHAM.

>If the Samsung utility shows no problems then I would trust it.

Actually I was going to hunt around tonight for a Samsung app to see if there was one specific for this SSD to give it a check. The app that I used before that performed a 45 minute diagnostic was actually from Lenovo.

Thanks for your help.