Man of Honour
More of a curiosity post really to see what others do and what SSDs they have as their OS drive with games/software installed.
I have had an Intel Skulltrail 730 series (480GB) since close to launch and having had many many SSDs since at both home and work, it has been the single most reliable SSD I have ever experienced. Fast and stable through everything.
Every few months I look at the SMART readings in both HDTune and Intel SSD Toolbox. As of today the values are reported as:
Windows Powershell reports the drive wear at 3% worn after those 4.4 years:
Considering the total writes to the drive I'm quite surprised by this wear indicator although unsurprisingly I bet money that this is exclusively down to the long power on hours count and low power cycle count.
Intel's spec page states 2 million hours before failure and it has a 5 year warranty along with an endurance rating of 70GB writes per day which is 114.576 TB over 4.4 years so I'm still well within the threshold at 33 TB. Considering the warranty period expires in a few months, I can see the drive lasting double its warranty period without issue.
My question is would others see the warranty expiration as a means to upgrade to something newer /just in-case/?
It will be interesting to see the info on SSDs at work when I'm back on Friday. I have a Surfacebook 2 which is about 2 years old and gets shutdown daily.
I have had an Intel Skulltrail 730 series (480GB) since close to launch and having had many many SSDs since at both home and work, it has been the single most reliable SSD I have ever experienced. Fast and stable through everything.
Every few months I look at the SMART readings in both HDTune and Intel SSD Toolbox. As of today the values are reported as:
Code:
HD Tune Pro: INTEL SSDSC2BP480G4 Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status Clarification
(09) Power On Hours Count 100 100 0 38578 ok 1607 days / 4.4 years
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 62 ok
(AE) Unexpected Power Loss Count 100 100 0 29 ok
(C2) Temperature 100 100 0 28 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(E1) Host Writes 100 100 0 33002.22 ok 33.00222 TB
(E2) Host Reads 100 100 0 33906.72 ok 33.906 TB
HD Tune Pro: INTEL SSDSC2BP480G4 Benchmark
Test capacity: full
Read transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 270.3 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum : 449.4 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average : 418.3 MB/s
Access Time : 0.055 ms
Burst Rate : 174.0 MB/s
CPU Usage : 2.5%Windows Powershell reports the drive wear at 3% worn after those 4.4 years:
Code:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter | Select Wear
Wear
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3Considering the total writes to the drive I'm quite surprised by this wear indicator although unsurprisingly I bet money that this is exclusively down to the long power on hours count and low power cycle count.
Intel's spec page states 2 million hours before failure and it has a 5 year warranty along with an endurance rating of 70GB writes per day which is 114.576 TB over 4.4 years so I'm still well within the threshold at 33 TB. Considering the warranty period expires in a few months, I can see the drive lasting double its warranty period without issue.
My question is would others see the warranty expiration as a means to upgrade to something newer /just in-case/?
It will be interesting to see the info on SSDs at work when I'm back on Friday. I have a Surfacebook 2 which is about 2 years old and gets shutdown daily.
