Linux

I've done server manufacturing in my career and generally I use only two tools to check disk health if it's not behind another card:

smartctl - this will give you a readout of disk information, and depending on which options you use it will give you attributes that can indicate pre-failure modes and current health as well as link health in case you have a bad cable or port on your motherboard.

if you want all the information generally I would do this: smartctl -x /dev/sda (or whatever drive designation it is)

look at the attribute section and the phy health section at the bottom.

warning this can be a little complicated to interpret if you don't already know what to look for so read the manual on Smart CTL to see the values mean.

I think zorinos is Ubuntu based, so I nabbed you a guide, I've never used this one but looked okay when I skimmed it: https://thelinuxcode.com/install-and-configure-smartctl-on-ubuntu/

fio - this is a multi-purpose stress utility. it's not too complicated to set up but you do want a configuration file and you might need a little help with that or to use a copy from online.

this will run some operations on your drive and provide you a report about how well it performed.

warning, do not run long read write operations on SSD, it will eventually wear out the drive.

I would probably do a longer sequence of sequential and random reads with a couple of short runs of random read write

link to fio install instructions for Ubuntu: https://dev.fio.net/docs/install-using-packages