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Re: Spare SSD anybody?
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Michael Hendry |
Subject: |
Re: Spare SSD anybody? |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Jun 2016 10:44:25 +0100 |
> On 1 Jun 2016, at 10:07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> my current development SSD, graciously donated by James, currently has
>> the following readings:
>>
>> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
>> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
>> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 099 099 --- Pre-fail Always
>> - 13
>> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 --- Old_age Always
>> - 25748
>
> Ok, I might have been panicking because of all the lines with "Pre-fail"
> and "Old_age" but they only indicate the _category_ of the respective
> settings. Sorry for that.
>
> I'm still trying to figure out the readings as such though. The
> "documentation" including online is not much help.
Surely an SSD is entirely Solid State, so can’t wear out in the way a
mechanical device does.
Eventually, I suppose, even solid state devices will fail, but I doubt that
SMART monitoring will give you advance warning of this.
Michael