[myself248]

I've been reading a lot of eMMC datasheets and I see terms like "static data refresh" advertised quite a bit.

You're quite right that we have no visibility into this process, but that feels like something to bring up with the SFF Committee, who keeps the S.M.A.R.T. standard.

[wtallis]

Might need to go through the NVMe consortium rather than SFF/SNIA. Consumer drives aren't really following any SFF standards these days, but they are still implementing non-optional NVMe features so they can claim compliance with the latest NVMe spec.