Am 06/07/13 14:00, schrieb Carlos E. R.: [...]
On Saturday, 2013-07-06 at 12:48 +0200, MarkusGMX wrote:
How accurate is this?
I guess that pretty accurate.
Ok.
Does that mean, that 34% of the SSDs lifetime is already over?
Yep, I think so.
:-/ I thought that SSDs may last a bit longer...
I do have /var with leafnode/usenet (lot of small files written) on that SSD but what I read on the net this shouldn't be a problem and approx. 2 years is not that much of lifetime. If that all is correct it would mean, that after another 4 years I have to exchange the SSD.
Yep.
~6 years is that the normal lifespan of SSDs nowadays?
It is not based in time of use, but in actual usage. Flash media, including SSD, have a limited number of write operation allowed. After that, they are no longer usable.
Ok, so with the current average usage there will only be something like another 4 years. Good to know. Are there some possibilies that smartctl may warn me at -say- "90~ Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" without making my own cron job and some script?
You can increase the odds. Be sure to mount "noatime", for instance.
Currently on this SSD: swap is on this SSD /boot ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /var ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /windows/B ntfs-3g fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0 where /windows/B is the 100MB boot partition of Windows 7 The mounting options were done by SuSE 12.1 out of the box. Most of the access/write will be /var and swap I assume. /boot and /windows/B won't be much writing but that doesn't matter if the SSD fails. :-( So the /var needs a noatime in /etc/fstab ? Is there some possible improvement for swap ? Does the newer SuSE 12.3 improve the mounting options for SSDs when installing 12.3 ?
Are there other tests for Linux which tell me more about the health of this SSD?
This is not really a test; it is the disk itself who is telling you that parameter about itself.
So it has to be somehow accurate. Best regards and thanks for your time ME -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org