What can be done to find out if an SSD is bad, i.e., in bad health to the point that it's already corrupting data or about to do so?
There's smartctl and its graphical version gsmartcontrol, which visually highlights bad drive attributes. However, those tools were originally written for HDDs. SSDs work differently. Are there special tools for SSDs?
Background: I came up with this question when I saw that, after creating a backup image of an SSD and generating a checksum of that SSD, the checksum didn't match the image file, suggesting that the SSD might be bad. Link.
