So I have some 5 year old Crucial M4 256GB disk that were in a small lightweight SQL server.
I pulled them out and did a smart test on them.
Whilst the life of the drives show around 95% lifespan remaining, they show over 90,000 retired memory blocks. Can't remember the exact wording but you get the point.
Would you guys consider that to be a high retirement count? Do you think the drives would still be good to use in something not critical like a bedroom desktop or something?
They have been running nearly 24/7 for 5 1/2 years in a server with a total reboot count of 41 times.
I pulled them out and did a smart test on them.
Whilst the life of the drives show around 95% lifespan remaining, they show over 90,000 retired memory blocks. Can't remember the exact wording but you get the point.
Would you guys consider that to be a high retirement count? Do you think the drives would still be good to use in something not critical like a bedroom desktop or something?
They have been running nearly 24/7 for 5 1/2 years in a server with a total reboot count of 41 times.
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