Intel SSD Data Center Tool

Regardless of whether you want to find out the exact drivers that your Intel SSD drivers require or need to extract specific information about them, a specialized job can save you a lot of time and effort. Intel SSD Data Center Tool is a useful command-line application that is specially tailored for managing Intel Solid-State Drives.
It is important to note that the utility works with both SATA and PCIe drives, so you should not experience errors when the drive is not recognized. Thanks to this app, you can detect the solid-state drives attached to a host system, parse its identity device information and resize the usable storage capacity by modifying the LBA settings.
The utility also enables you to access the drives' SMART information, an option that you would normally have to enter the BIOS to activate and check. Not only can this ensure your SSD works at higher performance, but you can also check the logs in case of disk failure.
You will be happy to learn that the tool also carries a firmware payload for all the supported drives. Consequentially, you will always know if there is a new firmware available or if you need to download the latest one. On a side note, the tool does not update Firmware on Engineering Sample (ES) drives but rather informs you of the new releases.