A message about a SMART event or Degraded drive health.
Drivers are mismatched.
While using an Inspiron 5301 and the Intel Optane feature, you may see an error in the Intel Software after updating your BIOS to version 1.8.0. The error will indicate the Optane Drive is as risk, or has a SMART Event, and the drive health will also show Degraded (Figure 1 and 2).
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This error is generated due to a driver mismatch between the BIOS and Optane drivers.
Dell is aware of this and working toward a BIOS solution to resolve this issue. Currently, the fix is expected to be in BIOS version 1.16.0 and with an ETA of May 2022 for release.