Re: [smartmontools-support] Confused monitoring my SSD's health

[Sylvain U. <syl...@al...>]

> On 10 Jun 2014, at 18:44, Andrew Reid <And...@ea...> wrote:
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>> On Jun 10,2014, at 11:38 , Sylvain Utard <syl...@al...> wrote:
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>> Could such failure be predicted benching how many seconds the disk need to write 1GB (ensuring I'm not writing to the cache), for example every hour, triggering alerts if it exceeds X?
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> That would seem to be a bit like testing matches :o). 
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> Your drive is rated at 90ish GB/day writen, do you really want use 25% of that testing it ?
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Hehe, obviously I don't :) Just looking for a trick to avoid the nightmare we had yesterday afternoon fighting with our provider to convince them that the SSD was KO \o/