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

[Dan L. <da...@ob...>]

On 06/10/14 19:04, Sylvain Utard:
> Just looking for a trick to avoid the nightmare

Unfortunately, two disc may not have the same pre-broken behavior even 
they are same model and firmware so you should not overestimate the 
results of specific test.

OK, so what I'm doing with my INTEL SSDSC2BB120G4 ?

I'm running extended SMART test from time to time (about every 2000 
power on hours). I'm inspecting atrribute values and/or Device 
Statistics (GP Log 0x04) for unexpected changes.

smartd is tool that may help you with such kind of task  (I'm doing it 
manually using smartctl)

You may consider to replace disc even it's not broken yet, but device 
statistics looks untrustworthy. Beware - no countermeasures will make 
you sure the disc will not become broken with no warning. So backup your 
data. It is the best trick to avoid nightmares ...


Dan