I did just want to (very belatedly) note one thing: The "Lifetime power-on resets" attribute is just a flat count of the number of times the device has been... well... powered on.

(Must be a laptop, as my desktop systems show double-digit values. My very oldest drives are low-triple-digits, but that's after 8+ years of runtime. 😁)

Point is, it doesn't translate to "59 days" or any other value. Any attribute named "_Count" — which is actually most of them, in the majority of drives — generally can't be units-translated, as they just hold a unitless value: "number of times this particular event has been recorded".

Your SSD seems to be an exception to the "mostly _Count attributes" rule, in that the screenshot is showing a craaaazy number of temperature stats. (Wish mine were that informative!)

One could argue, I suppose, that it would be nice to make temp values optionally translatable into Fahrenheit, for us dirty Americans, or into Kelvin, for exactly nobody. But since nearly all of those many temp values are just 0 (and not 0 Celsius), even that would be useless, at least for your drive.

Then there are other attributes, like (on spinning-rust HDDs) Spin_Up_Time and Seek_Time_Performance, that really give no indication at all what units they're expressed in.

Are those even documented anywhere? (I assume... probably, if you know where to look?)
Are the units/scale consistent between different vendors? (HAHAHA! ...Yeah, good luck with that.)
Spin_Up_Time is maaaybe in milliseconds, but who knows? (And even if it is, translating millisecond values to any other scale is... not really useful. 232 ms => 0.232 s? "Great, thanks.")

Ultimately, there are a very limited number of attributes for which any sort of human-readable value translation/reformatting could be done at all, and even fewer for which it could be done reliably/usefully. (Though I'm still in favor of doing so, for those few attributes.)

the amount of data recorded on the SSD in human-friendly form #28

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