[Discuss] SSD lifespan & monitoring

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

On 5/25/2015 12:32 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
> That's good news and not surprising. I wonder, though, how to tell
> when an SSD is "worn". They don't provide the same SMART data as hard
> drives. They do have a lot of data protection logic, compared to

Actually, they do, or close enough. What you're looking for is "media 
wearout" or something like that. It's a percentage, 100% being new and 
smaller numbers meaning more wear.

> SDcards like the one which wore out on my raspberry pi a few months
> (costing me hours of recovery effort, and a pledge to never-again
> trust SDcard).

http://www.howtogeek.com/196541/emmc-vs.-ssd-not-all-solid-state-storage-is-equal/

Also, I suggest changing that pledge to doing regular backups.

-- 
Rich P.