How to inject ssd failures

Hi, 

I want to test that my smartmonntools setup is fine and work with my SSD (on linux). Smartctl -c /dev/sda tells me that SMART is enabled. 

How can I inject some fake errors to test for example threshold crossings?

Thanks,
-Reinhard

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