I have a Kingston 480Gb SSD, it’s lasted for 3 years already, its count of reallocation events has been steadily increasing since I have purchased it and it’s now at 17, I have no idea of how many reallocations before it runs out of spare blocks.
smartctl says it has 4% of lifetime left, but I have only written about 5TB of data to it, and the manufacturer claims the 480Gb version can handle up to 160TB of lifetime writes.
So basically sounds like it’s either still brand new or close to death and I dont know which it is.
I already have a spare SSD to back up my data, but I wonder if I should wait for this one to die before cloning it. If I understand correctly, when SSDs die they become read-only instead of unreadable, so the risk of data loss low, or at least I hope so.
here’s the result from smartctl.
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.19.0-35-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Phison Driven SSDs
Device Model: KINGSTON SA400S37480G
Serial Number: 50026B76839B7AEE
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0026b7 6839b7aee
Firmware Version: SBFKB1E1
User Capacity: 480.103.981.056 bytes [480 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
TRIM Command: Available
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Mar 5 17:56:13 2023 -03
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: (0x05) Offline data collection activity
was aborted by an interrupting command from host.
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: (65535) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No 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: ( 30) minutes.
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 0x0032 000 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 18350
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 366
148 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 143
149 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 98
167 Write_Protect_Mode 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
168 SATA_Phy_Error_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
169 Bad_Block_Rate 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 31
170 Bad_Blk_Ct_Erl/Lat 0x0000 100 100 010 Old_age Offline - 0/15
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
173 MaxAvgErase_Ct 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 46 (Average 39)
181 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 16
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
192 Unsafe_Shutdown_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 309
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 061 052 000 Old_age Always - 39 (Min/Max 23/48)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17
199 SATA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
218 CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
231 SSD_Life_Left 0x0000 004 004 000 Old_age Offline - 96
233 Flash_Writes_GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10513
241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5528
242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4146
244 Average_Erase_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 39
245 Max_Erase_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 46
246 Total_Erase_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 596384
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 Short offline Completed without error 00% 144 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 47 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 47 -
# 4 Extended offline Aborted by host 00% 0 -
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported
