Re:How to estimate an SSD’s working life
by dcm360 on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:55AM
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Most SSD's will provide metrics that are quite readable for estimating the lifetime left for the drive. Most nvme-drive expose a line with 'Percentage used' in the nvme log (just use smartctl to read the nvme log). With sata-drives it is a bit more hit or miss, but the couple of drives I have lying around at the moment record wear leveling in Wear_Leveling_Count, which does provide the raw wear leveling count and the lifetime left as normalized VALUE.
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Re:How to estimate an SSD’s working life
by rkagerer on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:18AM
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Hard Disk Sentinel is great for helping with this. The developer has been at it for years, figured out all kinds of quirks of different disks and controllers.
Re:How to estimate an SSD’s working life
by revolvingocelot on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:45PM
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>just use smartctl to read the nvme log
"sudo smartctl -l ssd /dev/sdaWhatever", for anyone interested.
Re:How to estimate an SSD’s working life
by mixmastamyk on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:38PM
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apt install smartmontools
Re:How to estimate an SSD’s working life
by revolvingocelot on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:23AM
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If you're using Ubuntu, just ask your system administrator to check on your drive for you :^)