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Re: Spare SSD anybody?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Spare SSD anybody? |
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Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:36:02 +0200 |
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Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:
> recently I was afraid about my SSD for the same reason, so I asked our
> institute's IT service staff who cares for some dozens (hundreds?) of
> laptops and desktops with SSDs.
>
> They say that even power users of hibernation with high rate of data
> turnover didn't manage to damage their SSDs lately; the horror stories
> for the first generations of SSDs seem not to apply anymore.
Well, I am not sure I have significantly later than first generation...
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Samsung based SSDs
Device Model: SAMSUNG SSD PM810 2.5" 7mm 128GB
Serial Number: S0NRNEAB524258
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0000f0 000000000
Firmware Version: AXM08D1Q
User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS, ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Jun 1 12:23:20 2016 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
> You still have to take a bit of care (try to have some empty space,
> and run fstrim once in a while), but other than that you should be
> fine. As you experienced, the SMART information is rather unhelpful
> unless you have additional context by the manufacturer; more often
> than not, the only semi-reliable source are the manufacturer's own
> toolkits (which, unfortunately, are hardly available on Linux).
> That being said: which form factor/connector do you need?
SATA, 2.5".
> I can ask if I can grab something. Many parts from few-year old
> machines are sorted out regularly here. Not sure about hard disks,
> though - there might be regulations for data protection that prevent
> them from giving out old drives.
Sure, it would be nice to keep in mind. I'm not really sure what the
expected lifetime of the disk I have is. Maybe I just need to keep
making backups in sane intervals and otherwise am still fine.
--
David Kastrup