0% SSD Health

[Randomface74]

Plenty of people have SSDs, and it's possible to calculate the health of an SSD.
This is useful, because it alerts you to ?death? ahead of time.

I'm wondering...

1. At what threshold will you take action?
2. What action will you take?

as a side note, does an SSD actually die at 0% health?

 

[Redmint]

You can still read the data, just can't write to it any more. It's not 'proper dead'.

 

[stulid]

most ssds have like 500,000hrs mtbf, you do the maths.

 

[danewesley]

54/55 years?

 

[stulid]

this one according to the specs at the bottom

www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/07/21/crucial-realssd-c300-64gb-ssd-review/1

is 1.2million hours

as long as the drive has TRIM, then performance won't be impacted.

 

[Randomface74]

So are we considering an SSD to be similar to a case - in that it's worth spending more because it lasts several builds?

 

[admoo]

2. What action will you take?

I'd stop using my 55 year old hard drive, and buy a new one.....

 

[HAz]

I'd stop using my 55 year old hard drive, and buy a new one.....

rofl, prob be some sort of liquid storage device in 55 years time.

 

[rush_syndrome]

Which is just what I need when I go down the pub

 

[admoo]

Which is just what I need when I go down the pub

 

[apatia77]

I read somewhere that you could write about 100GB p/d for about 10 years. The lifespan of SSD is more than enough.

 

[chippy08]

I wont be around to see the end of the life of a ssd if they last that long lol.

 

[ubersonic]

I read somewhere that you could write about 100GB p/d for about 10 years. The lifespan of SSD is more than enough.

that's for the SLC SSD's that cost like £400 for a 64gb drive, the MLC drives that most of us use would last 6 months if you did that to them

 

[413x]

Woah good job I haven't got a ssd yet then :O

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

that's for the SLC SSD's that cost like £400 for a 64gb drive, the MLC drives that most of us use would last 6 months if you did that to them

A friend of mine pointed out that his Intel X25-M 80GB had transferred around 600GB so far.
Given the wear levelling, this is less than 8 cycles out of the 5,000 quoted.

I think it's safe to say that unless you're hammering the disk with masses of Read and Write, it'll be fine for a long time.

 

[R.C.Anderson]

rofl, prob be some sort of liquid storage device in 55 years time.

probably more like crystal