[kwlug-disc] SMART for SSDs

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Wed Jul 29 12:52:56 EDT 2015


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.

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.

When I run SMART on the SSD drives (smartctl --all /dev/sda), I get the
following table:

For those who have been using SSDs for a while, my question is: should I be
worried about lines with ID 1 and 233?

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x0000   006   000   000    Old_age
Offline      -       6
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       796
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       74
232 Lifetime_Writes         0x0000   100   100   000    Old_age
Offline      -       3033270496
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0000   100   000   000    Old_age
Offline      -       100

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