[sudo] password for al:
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-58-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
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Model Number: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB
Serial Number: S466NX0M823913W
Firmware Version: 2B2QEXE7
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x144d
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x002538
Total NVM Capacity: 500,107,862,016 [500 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0
Controller ID: 4
Number of Namespaces: 1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 500,107,862,016 [500 GB]
Namespace 1 Utilization: 172,010,180,608 [172 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 002538 5891b25a39
Local Time is: Tue Dec 22 08:15:01 2020 PST
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing cached reads: 21060 MB in 2.00 seconds = 10544.05 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 6758 MB in 3.00 seconds = 2252.37 MB/sec
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I have 3 of these and they are very reliable and FAST.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al