![]() That's why it's so difficult to draw any definite conclusions from these figures when all they give you are probabilities. This 5 years 20 GB/day has a very high probability of being true, so on average, your drive should last much longer. The lifespan estimates are basically just based on probabilities. ![]() So it's not anymore usable as an SSD, and hasn't been usable for a long time. In other words: after 10.000 erase/write cycles, on average, half of the cells are dead and half are still working. Now consider this in contrast: When people talk that a NAND flash cell lasts 10.000 erase/write cycles (I don't know how well this holds true for Intel SSDs) what it actually means is that if you drew a bell curve, the curve would peak at 10.000. I don't know what are the strict parameters they are using, but the point is that it should be very uncommon for a drive not to endure this. When Intel says that the minimum useful life is 5 years with 20 GB/day writes, they mean that nearly all individual drives out there should endure that. So for example my rather new SSD has been written to 5233 / 29.8 = 175.6 GB. ![]() The result is total writes in GB where one GB = 1000000000 bytes.It might be that your drive is slowly dying.-See if there are any S.M.A.R.T errors with CrystalDiskInfo. Divide the raw decimal value by 29.8 (this is 1 / (512 * 65536 / 1000000000)) EDIT: I was writing this before you posted your latest comment.HD Tune, for example, shows the value in decimals already. CrystalDiskInfo shows 1471 for my SSD and this is in hexadecimal. Most parameters basically just collect benign diagnostic information however the ones listed as 'critical' in the link are important to watch. Make sure you have the raw value in decimals and not in hexadecimals. You can get information on what each parameter represents here.As well as information on if it should be high/low etc.Are those raw values in bits, or bytes or kilobytes It's amazing that everyo. So, should not the hard drive fail What's threshold Never seen anything more un-initutive than this software. Here's how to decode a raw value to gigabytes: What does current means Because it looks like everything 'current'ly is at 'worst' value. But CrystalDiskInfo, for example, shows only the raw value in hexadecimals. Intel's SSD Toolbox shows Host Writes (ID: E1) in gigabytes so it's easy to understand. ![]() Thanks for the SMART tip! It basically answers my question.
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