• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    How can you know how much life an SSD still has? Is it a command in the terminal on Linux? Haven’t found anything in the system information.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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      2 days ago

      sudo smartctl -a /dev/yourssd

      You’re looking for the Media_Wearout_Indicator which is a percentage starting at 100% and going to 0%, with 0% being no more spare sectors available and thus “failed”. A very important note here, though, is that a 0% drive isn’t going to always result in data loss.

      Unless you have the shittiest SSD I’ve ever heard of or seen, it’ll almost certainly just go read-only and all your data will be there, you just won’t be able to write more data to the drive.

      Also you’ll probably be interested in the Total_LBAs_Written variable, which is (usually) going to be converted to gigabytes and will tell you how much data has been written to the drive.