Re: Re: HDD vs. SSD

"David W. Hodgins" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.hardware
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 13:20:30 -0400, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> SSD has Toolbox software, and will tell you "Percent Life".
> I have no idea how to access this if it's there. Certainly not anything obvious.

What os are you using? On linux the command smartctl shows the values.
For example on my oldest ssd drive, an OCZ-AGILITY4 I bought in 2013, the values
extracted from "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" ...
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      -       70573
  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       457
232 Lifetime_Writes         0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       80038320628
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0000   094   000   000    Old_age   Offline      -       94

According to https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/SMART_attributes_of_Intel_SSDs
the Media_Wearout_Indicator starts at 100 and decreases, so after 80 billion
writes over 8 years, it still has some life left in it. :-)

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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