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Hello,

This is Crucial m500 120GB and works as a system drive since 2013 in my nas.
CrystalDiskInfo shows 685 working days and about 11TB writes.
Health status: good, remaining life 33%. So it means - two working years used this drive in 67%.
Additional info: paging file was set to this drive.

According to all these information - this drive should be in working order during only next 12 months (1 year).



I had already installed the Crucial software, but it did not help to dispel my doubts.
I have only access to general status of this drive and if I am trying to check details the software problem accured.



What is your opinion?
 
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Just downloaded and checked my Sammy, knew it would be near 11TB writes, for comparison. It's at exactly 11TB!
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Mine says 100%...but I do have space allocated for wear. So if at 33% means you have 67% left and it counts up, that means mines completely worn out...?
 
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Just downloaded and checked my Sammy, knew it would be near 11TB writes, for comparison. It's at exactly 11TB!
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Mine says 100%...but I do have space allocated for wear. So if at 33% means you have 67% left and it counts up, that means mines completely worn out...?
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hmm then 33% means what he thought. I don't know how that's "good".

Edit: nevermind, it means that 33% of the life has been used. http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/HealthStatus.html

This is a Micron drive.
 
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Just so it's very clear, you have a Micron drive and the page below shows that percentages listed for Micron drives refers to how much of the life has been used:

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/HealthStatus.html

So, your drive still has 67% of its life left even though that Stablebit Scanner program says 67% used.

Again, I think that's why everything is coming up as being GOOD.
 
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Stablebit finally finished...no life shown (Life maximum: -- Life minimum: --)

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/storage-ssd-m500

72TB life expectancy is a bit more than ~30
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edit: They couldn't be using that SMART data as warranty expectancy could they? (yes I'm a cynical bar attendant
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Originally Posted by Spacedinvader View Post

Stablebit finally finished...no life shown (Life maximum: -- Life minimum: --)

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/storage-ssd-m500

72TB life expectancy is a bit more than ~30
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edit: They couldn't be using that SMART data as warranty expectancy could they? (yes I'm a cynical bar attendant
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Maybe 72TB life expectancy is calculated only for 480GB or 960GB drives? But for marketing purpose it was used for all of them.
 
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wait.. if thats how much life has been used how does my ssd that i only started using 2 months ago already have 98% used. LMAO
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If you're referring to your 120 GB Kingston HyperX Fury, then you're referring to a SandForce drive. According to that Health Status page, percentages shown for SandForce drives refers to "SSD Life Left".

Like I said, we were talking about a Micron drive, and they say right on that page that when their software shows a percentage for Micron drives, it's referring to "Percentage Of The Rated Lifetime Used".

So according to that Health Status page, the percentage shown doesn't mean that same thing for absolutely every single drive. He has a Micron drive, the percentage shows "Percentage Of The Rated Lifetime Used", so that's why it's saying that 33% is "Good".
 
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Compared to my Windows Storage Pool. It's rare. I use that like there's no tommorow.
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If you're talking about writing, then yeah I don't use my C: drive that much either. Well, *I* don't. Maybe Windows and Firefox does... That's only because I'm running out of space and I can't afford to buy a new drive.
 
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That SSD is in good health. Zero reallocated NAND blocks, 1990 (7C6) unused reserved NAND blocks, zero error correction count, zero reported uncorrectable errors, zero reallocation event count, etc.

The "33% lifetime used" may be based on power on hours count, so if ~16500 hours are 33% it should last until ~50000 hours at least.
 
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Yeah, you'd really have to beat the living hell out of a solid state drive before it even begins to have a chance of dying.
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Not true, a SSD can fail at any time.
Heck, any storage device can fail at any time, with no warning at all.

OP, just do backups, and keep using the drive.
It WILL die at some point, but, nobody can tell you when.
 
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