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SMART ATTRIBUTES: REALLOCATED SECTORS, WEAR LEVEL AND MORE

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  1. Daria Ziegler
    @shader_den

    im literally losing my mind here leanred something cool today: SSDs count how much data has been written to them over their lifetime 馃槄 in teh SMART data theres "Total Host Writes" or "Data Units Written" for NVMe. compare it to the TBW rating in the spec sheet and you get a rough sense of wear.

    mine is at a tiny fraction after two years, so all the warnings about SSDs wearing out quickly were overblown for my use... has anyone actually worn one out?

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  2. Lea Varga
    @uplink_fox-2ik

    Is it an HDD or an SSD? The important attributes differ. ??

    DNS. its always DNS

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  5. Juno
    @juno.larsen
    in reply to @cobaltshed

    ahh classic the simple "OK" status from Windows only flips when the drive itself declares failure. Detailed attributes often show problems earlier, so look at both. good luck man!

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  7. Jonas P.
    @jonasp221

    not gonna lie this is driving me nuts reading this at 2am instead of sleeping, no regrets

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  8. Juno
    @juno.larsen

    finally got it working, thanks everyone, lol this thread is gold owe u a beer 馃嵑

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  9. Yara K.
    @yarak803

    ahh classic for HDDs, rising Reallocated Sector Count, Current Pending Sector or Uncorrectable Sector Count are the big red flags. Back up immediately if those grow. worked for me anyway 馃し

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  10. Otto D.
    @embersage

    oh ive been there lol pro tip: write down what u change... i didnt and had to redo ssd from scratch

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  11. Uma Mendes
    @uma_late

    some USB enclosures dont pass SMART data through. if a tool shows nothing for an external drive, thats often why.

    my pc fans sound like a jet taking off but sure

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  12. Otto D.
    @embersage

    been there man for me it was the fan curve. swapped it and boom, fixed. i swear smart is cursed good luck man!

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  13. Leon Nakamura
    @lnakamura

    oof SMART isnt a guarantee. drives can fail suddenly without warnings, which is why backups matter more than monitoring.

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  15. Yuki Reyes
    @cipherbench

    idk man that sounds like bad advice tbh

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  16. Tomas Castillo
    @tcastillo

    WOWWW finally got it working, thx everyone owe u a beer 馃嵑

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  17. Yuki Reyes
    @cipherbench

    hmmm pro tip: write down what u change, i didnt and had to redo storage from scratch hope that helps :)

    day one patch is bigger than the actual game, classic

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  18. Uma Mendes
    @uma_late

    Never knew my SSD tracked total writes. Just checked and I'm way below the rating. Relieved.

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  20. Leon
    @leon.dalton
    in reply to @zoe.reyes

    ok so NVMe drives report a standardized health log: Percentage Used, Available Spare, Media and Data Integrity Errors. smartctl -a shows it nicely.

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