Regardless, whether it is an SSD or HD reformatting can have no positive effect on a drive's SMART values and could possibly have a negative effect. It certainly sounds as if the SSD may be failing or has already failed. 😨 I would not trust anything to that drive I was not willing to lose.
By-the-way, the values reported by your drive reveal that it is an older drive. The newer faster NVMe drives have their own unique SMART values that are different than we are accustomed to. Micromat has a new product out called Drive Scope that is specifically for reporting SMART values whether on an HD, an SSD, or an NVMe. It may end up replacing Techtool Pro in my toolkit.
Last edited by joemikeb; 08/12/19 10:11 PM. Reason: By-the-way
