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Intel SSD Owners - Has your wear indicator moved?

Hulk

Hulk

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I have an Intel 320 120GB about 18 months old and a 330 240GB that is about 6 months old. The normalized wear indicator on both is still at 100%. They are both boot drives and not hammered or anything but I was wondering if anyone's wear indicator has moved and now much data you've written?

The host writes on my 330 is 611GB.
1660GB writes on my 320. Assuming WA of 4 that's about 55 writes out of ?
 
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611GB writes is about 3 write cycles for that SSD. The NAND in it is rated for 3000.
That's 0.1%, so you got a long way before it should move.
 
If I'm reading the SMART data right, my 80G 320 is at 98%. That's with it being the drive housing both OS and /home volumes so it sees a fairly significant amount of writes.
 
4.2 TB on my oldest drive, 120GB Intel G2. 14000ish powered on hours.

Wear meter at 100% life.
 
So far so good, still 0%. Strictly using both of these as OS drives though, all my data is on my server on a raid of spindle drives.


ryan@falcon:~$ smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-32-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Smartctl open device: /dev/sda failed: Permission denied
ryan@falcon:~$
ryan@falcon:~$
ryan@falcon:~$ su -
Password:
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-32-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: SandForce Driven SSDs
Device Model: OCZ-VERTEX3
Serial Number: OCZ-NK85S90H5XAO9282
LU WWN Device Id: 5 e83a97 e62a2aaea
Firmware Version: 2.15
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ACS-2 revision 3
Local Time is: Tue Jan 15 22:37:10 2013 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 2097) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7f) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Abort Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 48) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0021) SCT Status supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 092 092 050 Pre-fail Always - 0/123266208
5 Retired_Block_Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 5718h+23m+02.980s
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 130
171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0030 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 30
177 Wear_Range_Delta 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 1
181 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 030 030 000 Old_age Always - 30 (Min/Max 30/30)
195 ECC_Uncorr_Error_Count 0x001c 120 120 000 Old_age Offline - 0/123266208
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0
201 Unc_Soft_Read_Err_Rate 0x001c 120 120 000 Old_age Offline - 0/123266208
204 Soft_ECC_Correct_Rate 0x001c 120 120 000 Old_age Offline - 0/123266208
230 Life_Curve_Status 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 100
231 SSD_Life_Left 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
233 SandForce_Internal 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 1964
234 SandForce_Internal 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 893
241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 893
242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 5494

SMART Error Log not supported
SMART Self-test Log not supported
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~#
root@falcon:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-32-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: M4-CT128M4SSD2
Serial Number: 00000000121009085334
LU WWN Device Id: 5 00a075 109085334
Firmware Version: 0309
User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is: Tue Jan 15 22:37:15 2013 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (10235) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 9) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 3) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 4179
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 45
170 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
171 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
172 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
174 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x0022 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 193274642460
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x000e 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 90
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 001 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x0018 100 100 001 Old_age Offline - 0
206 Flying_Height 0x000e 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4168 -
# 2 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4155 -
# 3 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4143 -
# 4 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4130 -
# 5 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4118 -
# 6 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4105 -
# 7 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4093 -
# 8 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 4080 -
# 9 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3935 -
#10 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3923 -
#11 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3910 -
#12 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3897 -
#13 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3885 -
#14 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3872 -
#15 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3860 -
#16 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3847 -
#17 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3835 -
#18 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3822 -
#19 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3810 -
#20 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3797 -
#21 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 3785 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

root@falcon:~#
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My OCZ drive shows 0 wear (guessing it's a percentage) and not sure which attribute to look at for the Intel one. (second drive)

These are fairly new as well. Maybe half a year or so. Given I barely write to them they'll probably last me till they die of random failure, or I decide to retire them.
 
The Media Wear Indicator (MWI) is broken in the SSD 330, it won't go below 100% no matter how much you write. Intel was promising a firmware update in December but at least so far I haven't seen it.
 
The 2 300GB 320 here havent moved.

The now what, 3 year old 80GB G2 moved 1% and the 4 year old or how long it is now G1 80GB moved 13% with 28014 on hours and 10.61TB writes.

All of them gets heavily used.
 
Hulk said:
How many writes?
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I'm not sure, when I tried to do the math last night it indicated something like 8TB of writes which seems unlikely so I'm thinking I may have been off by 1 so maybe around 800G?

I run Debian sid and update every other day or so and my /home is obviously where my profile is so its probably the most frequently written to volume on average.
 
ShintaiDK said:
The 2 300GB 320 here havent moved.

The now what, 3 year old 80GB G2 moved 1% and the 4 year old or how long it is now G1 80GB moved 13% with 28014 on hours and 10.61TB writes.

All of them gets heavily used.
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Your 4 year old G1 provides some interesting data.
 
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I'm now using two 160GB G2 in raid but I can show numbers for both.

The tool box shows both SSD's as having 100% life. The second drive has only been in use for a month so thats a given with that one. The first SSD has been in service since dec 24th 2009.




3 Years in Service



1 Month in Service
 
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