Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Check 177, 235 and 241. When the normalized value gets close to 0 (for any of them) start to worry.

The ones I listed are the main wear indicators, for the others I'd worry if they had any value at all in the RAW column, even if the normalized value was not close to 0. If that happens then carefully research the implications of whichever one it happened to.

If this is a linux server then if you configure smartmontools correctly it will email you when it gets close.



I just tried to find out about 235 (POR recovery count), and from what I gather this counts any hard power cycles you've "inflicted" on your machine, is that right?

I suspect that between 177 (wear level) and 241 (blocks written), 177 may be the best indicator, because 241 may not take into account write-amplification - useful discussion of this from Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-t...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: