Is this SSD dead?

UberTiger

UberTiger

UberTiger

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I've been using it for CCTV recording as a primary fast disk.

Is it about to die if at 1%?

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I set it up a few years ago, I remember reading that it was advised to have initial recordings go to a fast disk like an SSD, then to have it copy across to another drive. Hmmm....
 
Also I think maybe for noise, as it's probably quieter to have it writing to an SSD first, then copy the files across every half hour?

I do have an 18TB Seagate Exos for long term storage.
 
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Not sure what Wear Leveling Count means in this context.

So far as I can gather, your drive is otherwise healthy. It has not used any reserved blocks and it is not struggling to recover data written to the drive (ECC errors).
 
Tetras said:
Not sure what Wear Leveling Count means in this context.

So far as I can gather, your drive is otherwise healthy. It has not used any reserved blocks and it is not struggling to recover data written to the drive (ECC errors).
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That confused me too, I wasn't sure what it meant.

There's definitely issues with the PC though, which is why I started investigating. Hardly any of the cams are recording reliably at the moment, if at all.

I've tried shifting all recording directly to the 18TB Exos instead to see if that helps.

I usually connect to it over remote desktop as the tower is in the attic, and it's been quite unreliable to connect, and navigating windows has been super slow and dodgy. Had to do quite a lot of hard reboots the last week to get it back online (plus sort out some stupid windows updates, and get rid of all the copilot crap that loaded)

I've resulted to trying to delete the entire stored folder to completely clear all the data, so Blue Iris can start fresh. Explorer kept crashing though, so I ran a command line command to try and delete the 40k recording files more reliably. It's been running for over an hour now and is down to 15k files left :eek:
 
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How full do you allow it to get?

I wonder if being constantly written to (if that's what happens?) means it can't do the normal housekeeping that they need in idle?
 
It doesn't get super full (or rather it shouldn't as per the BI settings), but it is constantly being written to as I have the cams set to continuous 24/7 recording.

There have been a handful of cases where it's frozen in the past and gotten to a very low level when I remote in, so I manually clear out the 'new' folder because for some reason not everything has been transferred to the 'stored' folder on the 18TB disk. I presume due to some kind of bug.

The 18TB disk is set to only fill to about 90% capacity before deleting old files (but occasionally also maxes out, maybe a couple of times a year, where I manually delete some files)
 
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I wonder if that Samsung is the cause of your mysterious issues with the computer? Failing drives can cause Windows to hang as awaits the completion of a file operation.

Remove the drive, thank it for it's service, then securely erase it - either with a hammer, or carefully taking it apart and removing the memory chips. I like to do the latter and put the chips through my paper shredder as the crunches are quite satisfying. :D
 
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The cells in the SSD have an estimated average number of writes before they die, congratulations, after 3 years of continuous use you've reached 1% of this number!

Edit: Or possibly the other way, Magician seems to have removed this from it's SMART monitor now

Edit: Not convinced either way - I always thought wear level count - eg how used the drive is counted up from 0% - it might be the 850 series used chips that had a lot lower write limit than later drives

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If removing the drive from the system clears up the issue and putting the drive in another system causes weirdness, then it is time for retirement.

I have an old Samsung 830 that I don't have enough SATA ports for so it's been retired to sitting in the bottom of my case.
 
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That's an impressive amount of data written

Why not have it only record motion?
Instead of 24/7 recording?
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I've been bitten too many times when using old ring cameras where the motion wasn't reliable, then I got used to the 24/7 recording with Nest.

Now that I have all IP cams and everything gets recorded locally I prefer to have all cams recording 24/7 in 4k on a massive hard drive so I get the full picture of anything that might be happening at any given time in case I need to check something that for some reason the motion didn't trigger on.
 
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I've been bitten too many times when using old ring cameras where the motion wasn't reliable, then I got used to the 24/7 recording with Nest.

Now that I have all IP cams and everything gets recorded locally I prefer to have all cams recording 24/7 in 4k on a massive hard drive so I get the full picture of anything that might be happening at any given time in case I need to check something that for some reason the motion didn't trigger on.
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Fair enough
Everyone has a different environment
That they are recording
If its outdoors motion detection can be trickier sometimes
Depending on things like trees,bushes moving in the wind
The same trees or bushes growing beyond where
You put a don't monitor zone etc
Changing position of the sun etc
So what works for one person using motion detection
May not work for another
 
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