Unless I missed something - the failure into not accessible mode rather than read only would be very annoying.
Then again as the drives seem to function well past their expected lifetime, and warnings it's not likely to be a disaster for users. Me - on a busy day I may see 30GB written - so 300TB is 10000 days, or 30 years of 'busy' every day! JimB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Wolf Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Consumer SSD endurance test reaches 1 PB Both are well-regarded. Crystal Disk Info is very popular in the enthusiast sector. Daniel Wolf From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:08 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Consumer SSD endurance test reaches 1 PB Now that you've raised my curiosity I started looking at SMART viewing utilities, among which I see smartmontools and Crystal Disk Info. Does anyone use any of these utilities and have any recommendations? -Paul From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Consumer SSD endurance test reaches 1 PB http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-th e-way-to-a-petabyte -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/kschaefer

