Do you think you will use SSD-Z at some point?

Googletrusting · Dec 17, 2021

Will you ever use this upcoming software when it's released?

INSTG8R · Dec 17, 2021

I mean I use Crystaldisk now if it offers me similar or better features of course I’ll use it .
Edit: oh it already exists. I guess I WILL try it and make an informed decision.

Edit, Edit; Well if it could actually offer me information on my current drives(It doesn't) I would be more apt to use it

chrcoluk · Dec 17, 2021

Well I had never heard of it, I probably will use it now I know about it. Also add it to my control panel as well.

Steve-007UK · Dec 17, 2021

I could be very wrong but i am sure someone made a program called SSD-z a long time ago but then it went of the radar with no updates.

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W1zzard · Dec 17, 2021

This project is pretty dead anyway. Wish I had time to pick it up, but I do have a SSD related surprise coming to TPU soon

INSTG8R · Dec 17, 2021

animal007uk said:
I could be very wrong but i am sure someone made a program called SSD-z a long time ago but then it went of the radar with no updates.

After trying it and it basically giving next to zero information on my drives yeah...

W1zzard said:
This project is pretty dead anyway

That was pretty obvious

Steve-007UK · Dec 17, 2021

I would use it if it was kept upto date, but there are so many other programs out there that do the same thing it's maybe not worth the time and effort to be honest.

Googletrusting · Dec 17, 2021

This project died down too quickly

kapone32 · Dec 17, 2021

HWINfo64 and AIDA64

chrcoluk · Dec 18, 2021

yeah I see no updates since 2016, so will be out of date with SSD advancements.

cvaldes · Jan 13, 2022

I'm pretty sure this is abandonware.

Mussels · Jan 13, 2022

W1zzard said:
This project is pretty dead anyway. Wish I had time to pick it up, but I do have a SSD related surprise coming to TPU soon

I look forward to TPU-Z, the HWinfo64 competitor... but with red graphs!

GabrielLP14 · Feb 9, 2022

W1zzard said:
This project is pretty dead anyway. Wish I had time to pick it up, but I do have a SSD related surprise coming to TPU soon

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

GabrielLP14 · Feb 11, 2022

you guys will definetly like it, i'm sure of it, we're just making sure everything is working properly and its as complet as possible when it launches.

K4sum1 · Aug 6, 2022

I'd probably use it, the GUI looks to be better than Crystal Disk Info.

Morgoth · Jan 6, 2023

any news about it? crystal disk doest detect my lsi ssd but ssd-z does but only half of the hardware info shows up

GabrielLP14 · Jan 6, 2023

Morgoth said:
any news about it? crystal disk doest detect my lsi ssd but ssd-z does but only half of the hardware info shows up

View attachment 277882

which SSD do you have? try using one of VLO tools:

http://vlo.name:3000/ssdtool/

Morgoth · Jan 6, 2023

GabrielLP14 said:
which SSD do you have? try using one of VLO tools:

http://vlo.name:3000/ssdtool/

LSI NWD-RLP4-1860

GabrielLP14 · Jan 6, 2023

Morgoth said:
LSI NWD-RLP4-1860

Give it a try for these Sandforce Utilities

The SandForce Flash ID

Morgoth · Jan 6, 2023

none of em work

thewan · Jan 6, 2023

Morgoth said:
LSI NWD-RLP4-1860

should probably be in its own thread, why not give hard disk sentinel a go?

Morgoth · Jan 6, 2023

thewan said:
should probably be in its own thread, why not give hard disk sentinel a go?

thx. it shows more than crystalmark does but not everyting moost fields are empty or just a ? is marked

smart info ist shown either

Mussels · Jan 7, 2023

I wonder if this project is now more plausible (even with different name or dev) now that TPU has begun building an SSD database

goms · Sep 16, 2023

Mussels said:
I wonder if this project is now more plausible (even with different name or dev) now that TPU has begun building an SSD database

I suspect that the SSD-Z project would be much harder to maintain than say, CPU-Z or GPU-Z.

There are basically 2 CPU vendors (AMD, Intel) and 2 chip vendors for graphics cards (AMD and Nvidia). And the system/OS/Windows normally recognizes your CPU or GPU. Easy to identify the CPU/GPU and get the right info. Compare that to SSDs, where you have an infinite number of brands, dozens of controller vendors, 5 or 6 flash NAND manufacturers + many other NAND suppliers that do their own testing and packaging. Brands don't publish hardware specs and SSDs don't usually expose their hardware ID to the system. How are you going to identify the hardware that comes with a drive? If someone has a Kingston NV1/NV2, a WD Green, an XPG Gammix SX8200 or a generic Chinese drive, how are you going to tell their controller and their flash? These SSDs have more variants than the influenza virus.

Maybe if you guys could get someone like VLO onboard, you could make it happen, but I still wouldn't get my hopes up.

GabrielLP14 · Sep 16, 2023

Not to mention that but in order to get the precise information about flash you need specific proprietary Hex commands to get the Flash ID, and for most manufacturers like SK Hynix / WD-SanDisk / Samsung we dont have these commands only for brands like Phison / SMI / Marvell / Maxiotech so there is no use for SSD-Z at the moment

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