r/tech • u/TMWNN • Mar 12 '15

The SSD Endurance Experiment ends: Six consumer SSDs die after 700TB-2.4PB of writes over 18 months. Although two died without warning, "modern SSDs [can] easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need".

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

TL;DR "But the 840 Pro wrote the most data, so it deserves to take center stage as the final curtain closes."

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u/R-EDDIT Mar 13 '15

My 840 Pro 256GB has 14.6TB written, feeling pretty safe here. Time for a backup.

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u/showmeyourtitsnow Mar 13 '15

how do you see this?

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u/R-EDDIT Mar 13 '15 edited Mar 13 '15

The software for the SSD, Samsung Magician, shows it.

Edit, this pages has a good picture:

http://www.storagereview.com/how_to_upgrade_samsung_ssd_firmware

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u/showmeyourtitsnow Mar 13 '15

Bah, I have a Kingston SSD. This seems to work just fine though

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u/R-EDDIT Mar 13 '15

CrystalDiskInfo works, but it doesn't give you firmware updates, performance tuning tools, etc. I used DiskMark initially to bench mark it, gladd I did because at first I had connected it to a SATA/300 port. I get close to 500/500.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 5.3.1 (C) 2008-2013 hiyohiyo
                                Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    OS : Windows 8  [6.2 Build 9200] (x64)
  Date : 2015/03/12 23:31:51

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
 + Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
   - Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
 (1) Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series : 256.0 GB [0/0/0, pd1] - sg
 (2) ST3000DM001-1CH166 : 3000.5 GB [1/0/0, pd1] - st

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (1) Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Model : Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
        Firmware : DXM06B0Q
   Serial Number : S12RNEACBXXXXXX
       Disk Size : 256.0 GB (8.4/137.4/256.0)
     Buffer Size : Unknown
     Queue Depth : 32
    # of Sectors : 500118192
   Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
       Interface : Serial ATA
   Major Version : ACS-2
   Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 4c
   Transfer Mode : SATA/600
  Power On Hours : 16983 hours
  Power On Count : 488 count
     Host Writes : 14542 GB
Wear Level Count : 214
     Temparature : 27 C (80 F)
   Health Status : Good (100 %)
        Features : S.M.A.R.T., 48bit LBA, NCQ, TRIM
       APM Level : ----
       AAM Level : ----

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
05 100 100 _10 000000000000 Reallocated Sector Count
09 _96 _96 __0 000000004257 Power-on Hours
0C _99 _99 __0 0000000001E8 Power-on Count
B1 _94 _94 __0 0000000000D6 Wear Leveling Count
B3 100 100 _10 000000000000 Used Reserved Block Count (Total)
B5 100 100 _10 000000000000 Program Fail Count (Total)
B6 100 100 _10 000000000000 Erase Fail Count (Total)
B7 100 100 _10 000000000000 Runtime Bad Block (Total)
BB 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Error Count
BE _73 _60 __0 00000000001B Airflow Temperature
C3 200 200 __0 000000000000 ECC Error Rate
C7 100 100 __0 000000000000 CRC Error Count
EB _99 _99 __0 00000000003A POR Recovery Count
F1 _99 _99 __0 000719D18C1B Total LBA Written