Has anyone worn their SSD down to 0%

I'll have to plug it in and check, but I have a SanDisk 500gb ssd which I used as a cache drive in my server for a year or 2, pretty sure it had close to 300tb writes on it. It was still working fine but I swapped it out for 2x 1tb mx500 drives, which are insanely quicker.
 
A bit late here, but putting it down for data collation and review.

Have the main boot drive (Had a fairly easy life as I previously held the Temp files on the RAM Drive so it barely had any writes on it for a long while, but some updates didn't like that from Microsoft, so stopped that a few years ago. From 2012 I believe, so 8 years at least):

Crucial M4, 256GB, 93% Good at 6524 Power On Counts and 39469 Power On Hours.

App loader drive (typically used to just store stuff and then load to RAM Drive to run, from around 2013/2014, so at least 6 years I think):

Crucial MX100, 500GB, 97% Good at 4434 Power On Counts and 30258 Power On Hours. 15.5TB Writes performed.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
Lol to rephrase the OPs question - does anyone still have a fully functional OCZ SSD?
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Several.

I've a 60GB Agility 3 in a PS3 that used to be the boot drive for an old Ivy Bridge system, and a heavily used five year old 500GB Vertex 460A which is still at 98%. I've a couple more knocking around somewhere.

OCZ SSD's weren't as bad as many seem to think, there was a controller problem with some of their drives from what I remember but the issue was solved with firmware updates.
 
james.miller said:
This is my oldest drive. used as a boot drive from day one, page file and all that stuff. It's about the same age as ACME's i guess. Years left in it yet.

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edit: bought July 2012, so just over 8 years old. biggest upgrade ever.
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My PC is on basically 24/7 and the power on hours for the SSD are 7 years and 2 months (exceptions are reboots for updates or to fix things, downtime to dust or upgrade, or downtime to transport it), so I'd guess the SSD is probably at most, 7 years and 3 months old. :p
 
My samsung 830 in my laptop has 459 erase cycles. It is my second oldest SSD.

This is on a small 120 gig SSD, that has what I would call primitive firmware (in those days samsung firmware's were considered poor), it is planar MLC, rated for 3000 erase cycles.

The drive when benchmarked even if secure erased, is quite slow now about 40% of its original performance.

There is already a brand new mx500 ready to replace it, but waiting to get my windows 10 LTSC custom install image completed.

Its health status in crystaldiskinfo is reported as 100% which must be a glitch. Its over 10% of its rated cycles used, given how much slower it is, I be surprised if it could last to 3000.

Power on hours 63689.
Total host writes 11176GB
 
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Acme said:
My PC is on basically 24/7 and the power on hours for the SSD are 7 years and 2 months (exceptions are reboots for updates or to fix things, downtime to dust or upgrade, or downtime to transport it), so I'd guess the SSD is probably at most, 7 years and 3 months old. :p
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chrcoluk said:
Its health status in crystaldiskinfo is reported as 100% which must be a glitch. Its over 10% of its rated cycles used, given how much slower it is, I be surprised if it could last to 3000.
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Make sure you have the latest version of CDI as old versions read the health status incorrectly :)
 
I have SSD's that are as old as the hills ( some of the very first ones that came out ) and they are still working just fine. Never had one fail yet.
 
The only one I had fail was a Crucial RealSSD M4 which lasted for about 3 days and then died.

Unfortunately I had left it in its box for 3 years so it was out of warranty... :o
 
Before SSDs became cheap enough for normal people to afford, I tried using a CompactFlash card in a fileserver (they have an IDE interface, and so were easy to use as such). Lacking the sort of features needed for heavy use, such as wear-leveling, it wore out in about a year.

The oldest proper SSD I have is an OCZ Vertex 2, which was used in the same fileserver for a few years. I'm not sure how much life it has left in it, but it still works fine as of now.
 
This is the SSD out my server. It's had some use but far from dead yet it seems. But the only SSD I own that's below 100% health AFAIK.

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Surveyor said:


Purchased over eight years ago, power on hours more than six years, 88.7TB written. Another nine years and the drive might wear out.
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Less uptime but more writes than my 256GB 830. Mine is at 70% health according to CrystalDiskInfo. What does that say for you?

I was going to go and grab SSDLife Pro but it seems to be paid only now?
 
Surveyor said:
CrystalDiskInfo says 77%.



I just downloaded it and ran it.

https://ssd-life.com/eng/download-ssdlife.html
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Thanks, I thought I had to pay cos it said $19 off to the side. I guess its like WinRar. Its free but its not free. But its free. :p

It said 100% and estimates 9 years -1 months (yes, negative 1 months) 4 days.

I'd suggest we should ignore SSDLife Pro and go by CrystalDiskInfo (or another app) :D
 
I have an old Crucial M225 which I guess I've had for 11 or 12 years. Not used that box much at all over the last 8 or so years. Surprised it's that far gone after relatively little use.

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Using a 2TB MX500 now. I guess that can can take some pretty heavy (domestic) use?
 
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