Not quite! Disk Utility's, and other apps that report only the consolidated Pass/Fail are limited to reporting the manufacturer's smoke & mirrors as you called it. I have no idea what DriveDX reports....
I'm not sure what "Not quite!" means, but I saved the DriveDX report because I thought it might come to this, particularly as respects "smoke and mirrors," which are not what you took them for, rather they're specifications and other irrelevant info apparently meant to flesh out the report to make it look more substantial and informative than it really is.
### SYSTEM INFORMATION ###
Report Timestamp : August 13, 2019 12:49:40 PM EDT
Report Timestamp (ISO 8601 format) : 2019-08-13T12:49:40
Application Name : DriveDx
Application Version : 1.8.2.610
Application SubBuild : 1
Application Edition : Standalone
Application Website :
https://binaryfruit.com/drivedxDriveDx Knowledge Base Revision : 9/9
Computer Name : Artie’s MacBook Pro
Host Name : Artie's-MacBook-Pro-2
Computer Model : MacBookPro11,4
OS Boot Time : 2019-08-08T02:25:24
Time Since Boot : 5 days 10h 24m 16s
OS Name : macOS
OS Version : 10.14.6
OS Build : 18G87
OS Kernel Version : Darwin 18.7.0
SAT SMART Driver Version : N/A
ATA Command Support Tolerance : verypermissive
N of drives with S.M.A.R.T support : 1
### DRIVE 1 OF 1 ###
Last Checked : August 13, 2019 12:48:46 PM EDT
Last Checked (ISO 8601 format) : 2019-08-13T12:48:46
Advanced SMART Status : OK
Overall Health Rating : GOOD 100%
SSD Lifetime Left Indicator : GOOD 96.0%
Issues found : 0
Serial Number : S29ANYAH406432
WWN Id : 5 002538 900000000
Volumes : HD, HD2, HDx, HDy
Device Path : /dev/disk0
Total Capacity : 500.3 GB (500,277,790,720 Bytes)
Model Family : Apple (Samsung-based) SSDs
Model : APPLE SSD SM0512G
Firmware Version : BXW1SA0Q
Drive Type : SSD
Power On Time : 28,028 hours (38 months 27 days 20 hours)
Power Cycles Count : 951
Current Power Cycle Time : 130.4 hours
=== DEVICE CAPABILITIES ===
S.M.A.R.T. support enabled : yes
DriveDx Active Diagnostic Config : Apple (Samsung-based) g-series SSDs config [ssd.apple.samsung.g]
Sector Logical Size : 512
Sector Physical Size : 4096
Physical Interconnect : PCI
Logical Protocol : SATA
Removable : no
Ejectable : no
ATA Version : ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version : SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
I/O Path : IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/PEG0@1/IOPP/SSD0@0/AppleAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice
Attributes Data Structure Revision : 1
SMART Command Transport (SCT) flags : 0x0
SCT Status supported : no
SCT Feature Control supported : no
SCT Data Table supported : no
Error logging capabilities : 0x1
Self-tests supported : yes
Offline Data Collection capabilities : 0x53
Offline Data Collection status : 0x0
Auto Offline Data Collection flags : 0x0
[Known device ]: yes
[Drive State Flags ]: 0x0
=== CURRENT POWER CYCLE STATISTICS ===
Data Read : 48.2 GB
Data Written : 38.2 GB
Data Read/Write Ratio : 1.26
Average Throughput (Read) : 60.6 MB/s
Average Throughput (Write) : 77.8 MB/s
Operations (Read) : 4,967,179
Operations (Write) : 2,275,016
Operations Read/Write Ratio : 2
Throughput per operation (Read) : 10.2 KB/Op
Throughput per operation (Write) : 17.6 KB/Op
Latency Time (Read) : 0 ns
Latency Time (Write) : 0 ns
Retries (Read) : 0
Retries (Write) : 0
Errors (Read) : 0
Errors (Write) : 0
=== PROBLEMS SUMMARY ===
Failed Indicators (life-span / pre-fail) : 0 (0 / 0)
Failing Indicators (life-span / pre-fail) : 0 (0 / 0)
Warnings (life-span / pre-fail) : 0 (0 / 0)
Recently failed Self-tests (Short / Full) : 0 (0 / 0)
I/O Error Count : 0 (0 / 0)
=== IMPORTANT HEALTH INDICATORS ===
ID NAME RAW VALUE STATUS
5 Retired Block Count 0 100% OK
173 Wear Leveling Count 0x800900048 96.0% OK
175 Host Writes MiB 13,764,312 (13.1 TB) 99.0% OK
192 Unsafe Shutdown Count 98 99.0% OK
197 Current Pending Block Count 0 100% OK
199 UDMA CRC Error Count 0 100% OK
=== TEMPERATURE INFORMATION (CELSIUS) ===
Current Temperature : 32
Power Cycle Min Temperature : 32
Power Cycle Max Temperature : 37
Lifetime Min Temperature : 32
Lifetime Max Temperature : 37
Recommended Min Temperature : 5
Recommended Max Temperature : 65
Temperature Min Limit : 5
Temperature Max Limit : 70
=== DRIVE HEALTH INDICATORS ===
ID | NAME | TYPE | UPDATE | RAW VALUE | VALUE | THRESHOLD | WORST | LAST MODIFIED | STATUS
1 Raw Read Error Rate Life-span online 0x0 200 0 200 - 100% OK
5 Retired Block Count Pre-fail online 0 100 0 100 - 100% OK
9 Power On Hours Life-span online 28,028 94 0 94 8/13/19 12:48 PM 94.0% OK
12 Power Cycle Count Life-span online 951 99 0 99 - 99.0% OK
169 Total Bad Block Count Pre-fail online 0x3390A800780 242 10 242 - 100% OK
173 Wear Leveling Count Life-span online 0x800900048 196 100 196 - 96.0% OK
174 Host Reads MiB Life-span online 17,528,594 (16.7 TB) 99 0 99 8/13/19 12:48 PM 99.0% OK
175 Host Writes MiB Life-span online 13,764,312 (13.1 TB) 99 0 99 8/13/19 12:48 PM 99.0% OK
192 Unsafe Shutdown Count Life-span online 98 99 0 99 - 99.0% OK
194 Temperature (Celsius) Life-span online 32 68 30 19 8/13/19 12:48 PM 54.3% OK
197 Current Pending Block Count Life-span online 0 100 0 100 - 100% OK
199 UDMA CRC Error Count Life-span online 0 200 0 200 - 100% OK
=== DRIVE ERROR LOG ===
error log is empty
=== DRIVE SELF-TEST LOG ===
# | LIFETIME (H) | TEST TYPE | PROGRESS | STATUS | LBA of 1st error
1 28018 Short offline 100% Completed without error -
