Then why do PCs let you check your SSD / HDD health and integral info through OS codes, while phones (Android based specifically) have no such commands ? Doesn’t it make more sense to include such things in phones since they hold sensitive personal data, and therefore are just as prone to data loss as PC hard drives ? (if not more, since you can’t just swap a phone’s storage unit if it starts to fail…)
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There may be some phones which allow you to see remaining lifetime of the storage. However there is usually not anything you can do about it with modern phones except get a new phone and restore from backup. With a PC you can just replace the hard drive. The indicator is also not a good indicator of when the disk will fail. It counts the number of sectors which have already failed and have been remapped to available working sectors. However there is no way of knowing how soon other sectors will fail. It might be that a lot of sectors will fail tomorrow causing your 90% lifecycle remaining disk to completely fail.
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