My understanding is that wear leveling count, and other associated values, start at 100 and count down to 0.<div><br></div><div>I think you are fine. That said, I would always try to limit the number of write cycles to an SSD as much as possible to maximize life. That said you could probably write a petabyte to a typical SSD before that becomes an issue.</div><div><br></div><div>I think your SSDs are probably fine right now. Make sure you perform routine backups, of course.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 09:22 Mark Phillips &lt;<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I ran GSmartControl on my two SSDs (Ubuntu 14.04 laptop), and I see a lot of pre-fail 
indicators in the reports (attached). Does this mean I am approaching 
the drives end of life and I need to replace them? <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">I have also read that each SSD manufacturer codes the SMART attributes 
differently 
(<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/325283/how-do-i-check-the-health-of-a-ssd" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/325283/how-do-i-check-the-health-of-a-ssd</a>). Not sure if this is true today, since these posts are several years old. <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">I looked at this &quot;dictionary of terms&quot; for Samsung drives (<a href="http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/M2M/download/07_Communicating_With_Your_SSD.pdf" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/M2M/download/07_Communicating_With_Your_SSD.pdf</a>). I am confused as to why the values in my reports are considered &quot;pre-fail&quot; or &quot;old age&quot; when many of them are zero.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Can you interpret these reports for me, or point me to some documentation that will help me understand what they are telling me? <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"></div>Thanks!<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>Mark<br class="gmail_msg"></div>
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