It is, indeed. E.g. by looking on remapped sectors on traditional HDD you may see trend that drive will die soon. Selftests are only way to check surface before you will hit it with real files...
On SSD the most important is wear out and usage data. It may, from one side, indicate that drive needs to be replaces soon and from other - if you see that wear out is too fast - optimise your software/os to prevent that.
On SSD the most important is wear out and usage data. It may, from one side, indicate that drive needs to be replaces soon and from other - if you see that wear out is too fast - optimise your software/os to prevent that.