How do you monitor SSD wear in Windows when the drives are presented as 'generic' devices?

Solution 1:

You need a utility provided by your raid controller. For example, most HP raid controllers have a compatible utility for reading the smart info from drives connected to their controllers.

Solution 2:

Specifically for IBM servers, there is now a utility available to monitor this:

IBM SSD Wear Gauge CLI Utility v1.0 (Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008) - IBM BladeCenter and System x

and

IBM SSD Wear Gauge CLI Utility v1.0 (Linux) - IBM BladeCenter and System x