<div dir="ltr"><div>So, I had an SSD lying around for a couple of years (long story, bought to benchmark against spinning rust disks for a client project). My laptop disk died 1.5 months ago, and when checking SMART values for it, it was not good.<br><br>Therefore, I decided to put the SSD drive in the laptop, and copy the spinning drive to it. I blogged on the details of how to do that separately.<br><br></div>When I run SMART on the SSD drives (smartctl --all /dev/sda), I get the following table:<br><div><br>For those who have been using SSDs for a while, my question is: should I be worried about lines with ID 1 and 233?<br><br>Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:<br>ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE<br> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0000 006 000 000 Old_age Offline - 6<br> 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0<br> 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0<br> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0<br> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 796<br> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 74<br>232 Lifetime_Writes 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 3033270496<br>233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0000 100 000 000 Old_age Offline - 100<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken<br></div>
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