On 18/12/2020 00:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 17/12/2020 20:32, bob prohaska wrote:
>>   SMART keeps some track of deterioration
>> in mechanical drives, does it exist for SSDs?
>
> Absolutely. It's mandatory more or less. It gives you error rates on all
> the things you need to worry about. This drive has been going a shade
> over 5 years of actual 'on' time as my linux desk top boot drive: data
> is held on a server so it doesn't get much action. But logs are written
> to this. So it has in fact more writes than reads! (9780 GB versus 5255GB)
> It still reports 95% of its useful life left.
>
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>
>I've just tested my first SSD, which is still in use. An 11 year old
Intel X25-E SSDs 32GB:

 Power_On_Hours 54141
 Media_Wearout_Indicator 98.

Although to be fair I'm not sure all SSDs are as reliable. I did buy a
number of OCZ SSDs (about 4), all of which failed catastrophically, I'm
not sure what the wearout indicator was on them.

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