Hello, On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:43:58 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: >> >> The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel >> >> quite confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. >> > What are you using to get that niformation? >> >> smartctl -A /dev/sdX > >83% after five years of recompiling LO and Chromium, not bad :)
# smartctl -a /dev/sda Device Model: SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical [..] 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 091 091 000 Old_age Always - 42855 177 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0013 093 093 000 Pre-fail Always - 245 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 12835630376 [9 would be ~4.9 years nonstop, 241 is almost 6TiB written, or about 50ish full drive writes] That's been running here since Jul 2012, but I tried to reduce unnecessary writes to it. I did use it for PORTAGE_TMPDIR for a while but that rather quickly reduces the wear leveling from 96 to the current 93. HTH, -dnh -- The Royal Architects were tasked with constructing an edifice known as the Organisation's In[ft]ernal Webshite. It was grand, it was shiney, it was complex, and its navigability would seem to indicate the chief architect was the bastard child of Escher and Giger. -- Niklas Karlsson
