Whats the status of your SSD?

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Nice utility - thanks for the tip!

[Penryn]

This is mine SSD bought it 3 months ago

[Roger H. Veteran]

Just got my SSD - a Kingston SSDNow V+180 64GB. Checked with SSDlife and as expected it shows 2020 as the life expectancy so i'll test it out for the next few days and see how it fairs then.

Scores a 7.1 on WEI (coming from a 5.1 for my Toshiba 1.8" 5400RPM drive).

CrystalMark gives it a 183MB/s Seq READ though, i've seen other people posting 230MB/s. Writes are where they should be at 173-179MB/s according to the specs.

(Got it for free, beggers can't be choosers :D)

[norseman]

No idea, mine are all raided. It won't tell me their status.

[SMELTN]

crap I just got a 64gig SSD this past weekend. Thanks for this thread as I will go home and run this tool to see how I stack up. I didn't know they wear out though wow.

[AJerman]

I don't have any myself, but I have a bunches here at work. They are pretty much all in RAID arrays though, so they don't even show up in Windows, just the RAID disk. Got one server running 5x50 GB SSDs in RAID 5.

[Profound]

I'm happy to see my seperately bought SSD is holding out a lot better than the SSD that came with my laptop... but still.. bit of a shame the built in one has degraded so fast.

[DrakeN2k]

2057 lol

i might replace my SSD by then :)

http://online.hddlife.com/ssdlife/ddd538c4a1fdc37b99665b7a6a6212e6

[gregalto]

Cool little app, need to try this when I get home.

[rajputwarrior]

[JOHW]

Had this SSD since late Dec 2009

[myxomatosis]

Too bad it won't work with RAID arrays... :(

Got 2 X25-M "Postville" in RAID-0.

#1:

Written: 688Gb

Power-On Hours: 6008

Power Cycle-Count: 2465

#2:

Written: 779Gb

Power-On Hours: 6143

Power Cycle-Count: 2458

Don't know what it gives in %

[AimLXJ]

Almost five months now and it's still at 100%

Thought I didn't put a lot of stuff onto this SSD, but a lot of powered on :laugh:

[Elliot B.]

Only had mine 4 months :/

Bought my Kingston SNV425-S2 64GB SSD in September 2010.

January 2011 (when I originally posted the following results in this topic)

SSD was 4 months old

Health was 85%

Work time: 2 months, 6 days

Powered on: 229 times

September 2011

SSD is 12 months old

Health is 62%

Work time: 6 months, 1 day

Powered on: 578 times

Things are not looking good, it seems? Although the program says "Your drive health is in good condition and according to current use, estimated lifetime is August 2020."

[Ci7]

Bought my Kingston SNV425-S2 64GB SSD in September 2010.

*snip*

Things are not looking good, it seems? Although the program says "Your drive health is in good condition and according to current use, estimated lifetime is August 2020."

that doesn't look good at all, it sound it would just a bit after the warranty expire

sucks to be in that situation (my HD4870X2 died a month or two after warranty expired :( )

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Seeing some people's SSD wearing down quickly has put me off buying one :/

That's a shame.

Although I'd only get a 50Gb one... Windows only.

[yxz]

sandforce-1200

[Amarok]

Better than I expected ...

[+LogicalApex MVC]

An honest question is why does this thread exists? Is they any proof that the numbers reported by SMART and this tool are reliable? I have encountered VERY few HDDs in my computing life that have failed and weren't reported "great" by SMART.

Although HDDs have more room for failure than SSDs I have also had countless USB flash drives just fail out of the blue as well (and they share the no moving parts SSD features).

So why are people posting screenshots to a tool that tells them their drive will last them decades when there is no proof that those numbers are even close to accurate? (although if such a reliability study does exist I would love to read it)

[Astra.Xtreme]

An honest question is why does this thread exists? Is they any proof that the numbers reported by SMART and this tool are reliable? I have encountered VERY few HDDs in my computing life that have failed and weren't reported "great" by SMART.

Although HDDs have more room for failure than SSDs I have also had countless USB flash drives just fail out of the blue as well (and they share the no moving parts SSD features).

So why are people posting screenshots to a tool that tells them their drive will last them decades when there is no proof that those numbers are even close to accurate? (although if such a reliability study does exist I would love to read it)

Who cares? If you still don't believe what the program predicts, then that's your own fault.

Common sense would say that a mechanical HDD will be less reliable than a SSD. And common sense would also say that there will be failures in both areas no matter what.

The only proof you need is the testimonial of people like me that have had SSD's for years and years without a single failure. Most people don't buy an SSD for the reliability either. The shear speed is the attraction.

[Ryoken]

If this drive lasts till 2020, I'll dance a jig.

[zeke009]

Handy tool, thanks for sharing! But I'm sad there is no icon love for Mushkin. :cry:

[+LogicalApex MVC]

Who cares? If you still don't believe what the program predicts, then that's your own fault.

Common sense would say that a mechanical HDD will be less reliable than a SSD. And common sense would also say that there will be failures in both areas no matter what.

The only proof you need is the testimonial of people like me that have had SSD's for years and years without a single failure. Most people don't buy an SSD for the reliability either. The shear speed is the attraction.

I am sure the attraction to SSDs isn't their reliability, but their speed. I am not questioning the attraction to SSDs, but merely this topic. The point of posting reliability estimates would be to challenge those who see SSDs as less reliable than HDDs, otherwise why do it?

I have had more flash media die on me than anything other than Floppy Disks in my 13 years using PCs. This makes me wonder about the reliability of SSDs. As a result, looking at this thread aims to counter that, but offers nothing in the way of proof. I can find many people who are still running HDDs from over 5 years ago. A matter of fact, I have ones nearing 10 years old in use right now and they are still spinning fine. That doesn't mean HDDs never die. But if I told you my HDDs was going to last me another "3 years, 2 months, and 9 days" I should be showing why that number is so accurate and isn't just pulled out of someone backside.

Again, this isn't an attack on SSDs, but an inquiring as to what the point of posting the "status" of your SSD if the status is hogwash.

[Ryoken]

I am sure the attraction to SSDs isn't their speed, but their reliability.

I can honestly say, of all the people I know with SSD's, all would have drawn a blank of why they got a SSD if you didn't count speed. Reliability simply has not been a factor for most.

[+LogicalApex MVC]

I can honestly say, of all the people I know with SSD's, all would have drawn a blank of why they got a SSD if you didn't count speed. Reliability simply has not been a factor for most.

Edited. Thanks. I said that inverted. Next time I should proof read before I hit submit :|