S.M.A.R.T. Error MacOS 11 Big Sur Beta Installer Mid-2014 MacBook Pro 13&quot; lowest spec.
I recently upgraded the SSD to a 500GB WD Blue NVMe M.2 drive. I suspect the given issue may be something to do about this upgraded SSD. I have three partitions on the drive, one (really two, Data and System) for macOS, one for Bootcamp, and one for Shared files.
I am running macOS 11 Big Sur Developer Beta 1 as of now. I saw an available update today for what I assume to be the public beta. I downloaded the 12 GB .app installer, and once I got to the 'select a drive' phase, all three partitions were grayed out with the error:
This disk has S.M.A.R.T. errors. The popup (in an attached screenshot) specified that this was a hardware issue, although the drive is less than a month old.
Before everyone renounces me for even thinking of installing the developer beta on my mac (I do understand how incredibly buggy macOS betas are), I want to assure all the veterans this is not my main machine, although I do use it for application development and various other uses. I don't want to run a clean install though, as this machine does have data and I am tired of wiping it on numerous occasions. I have only seen minor bugs, UI glitches, and slowdowns over the period of about a month of using this beta. In any case, any help debugging this problem is welcome.
Here's a screenshot:
I would load the app DriveDX which specifically looks for the SMART status of the drives. The app is not free but has a free trial period. You can use that to check your drive. It will tell you the SMART status and details about the drive. It very simple to use. Just start the app and it will start scanning your drives. Give it a minute or so to complete and display the results. See the image below for an example of the output. Yes my drives are failing or have failed.