I recently bought an X25-m 160GB G2 from someone on ebay advertised as new, and have noted that the drives SMART info as displayed by crystal drive info states that its has 985GB writes 547 power on hours and 318 power ons. Is this usual/correct, or does crystal drive info misread SMART info. The seller says they bought new and only did the flash update, I dont have any reason to beleive he is lying other than the odd info from Crystal disc info, and in truth it was only £35 cheaper than a brand new drive for OcUK. Another peculiarity is that it reads as 99% health, this is all done using the lastest crystal disc info downloaded today from crystal dew world.
How accurate is Crystal drive info for SSDs
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Never heard of this program until I read your post. Downloaded and tried it. It says my SSD has been on for 144 days, my Samsung 1tb 12 days and my Western Digital 1tb 4 hours.
These seem accurate enough to me as I built the system 5 months ago, put the sammy in to replace the faulty WD. Just installed the replacement WD today.
These seem accurate enough to me as I built the system 5 months ago, put the sammy in to replace the faulty WD. Just installed the replacement WD today.
Pretty accurate i'm afraid, SMART data from crystal disk tallys with Intels own SSD toolbox.
Its certainly seen a couple of months use, however 985GB of writes isn't much in the scheme of things, The drive has loads of lifespan left, so it's nothing to go returning the drive over ... though you may want to make a note of the misinformation in his ebay feedback.
Worth saving 10% over retail price at the cost of less than 1% lifespan imo.
Its certainly seen a couple of months use, however 985GB of writes isn't much in the scheme of things, The drive has loads of lifespan left, so it's nothing to go returning the drive over ... though you may want to make a note of the misinformation in his ebay feedback.
Worth saving 10% over retail price at the cost of less than 1% lifespan imo.
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My brand new, never been touched other than a window 7 install, Intel X25-M reads as 99% health in crystal disk info if thats any help.
Cheers, tallies with what I have been reading, from what I have seen even benchmark drives (used by reviewers and forum users) with similar power on hours as this drive, have half or less the number of host writes, this drive has the equivalent of 44GB per day, that seems huge to me considering typical usage is supposed to be in the 10-15GB per day range.
I am sending it back and have just ordered a new one from OcUK, at least I know all warranties will be honoured this way.
I am sending it back and have just ordered a new one from OcUK, at least I know all warranties will be honoured this way.
I'd run CrystalDiskMark to test the performance of my SSD drives but somehow missed this little tool. I'd like to use it to monitor the SSD usage but it doesn't seem to see them, presumably because they are set up in a RAID 0 array. Does anyone know of a tool to read SMART values for drives in a RAID array?