Re: Spare SSD anybody?

[Michael Hendry]

> 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