Re: HDD vs SSD
"David W. Hodgins" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 31 May 2020 01:47:16 -0400, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > While they can have firmware failures (like early OCZ), it's > also possible to suffer the effects of the "bricking policy" > at end of life. Some brands brick read-only, some just... brick. From smartctl for the oldest of 3 ssd drives in my current system ... Model Family: Indilinx Barefoot_2/Everest/Martini based SSDs Device Model: OCZ-AGILITY4 ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0000 005 000 000 Old_age Offline - 5 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 63287 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 443 232 Lifetime_Writes 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 74472695517 233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0000 095 000 000 Old_age Offline - 95 I've yet to have an ssd drive fail. I've had lots of hard drives fail over the years, so I do back up everything frequently. From the wearout indicator, I expect this 8 year old OCZ drive will fail soon, but for now it's working ok. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change [email protected] to [email protected] for email replies.