Re: Samsung SSDs - Am at the end of life?

My understanding is that wear leveling count, and other associated values,
start at 100 and count down to 0.

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.

I think your SSDs are probably fine right now. Make sure you perform
routine backups, of course.


On Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 09:22 Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> I have also read that each SSD manufacturer codes the SMART attributes
> differently (
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/325283/how-do-i-check-the-health-of-a-ssd).
> Not sure if this is true today, since these posts are several years old.
>
> I looked at this "dictionary of terms" for Samsung drives (
> http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/M2M/download/07_Communicating_With_Your_SSD.pdf).
> I am confused as to why the values in my reports are considered "pre-fail"
> or "old age" when many of them are zero.
>
> Can you interpret these reports for me, or point me to some documentation
> that will help me understand what they are telling me?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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