"Wearing out" X25-M's ?

[aamsel]

I recently performed a bunch of clean OS installs on an X25-M.
I wasn't even thinking "I'm going to wear this drive out" at the time.
Of course, I didn't do anything close to that.

What "bothers" me (for no good reason) is being able to watch it wear out.
After a very short use (days), one I was using had written 800GB and the
wear-out indicator shows that it has dropped from 100% life to 99%.
That would be 1% of its life-expectancy gone already in a very short time.

Granted, a Velociraptor is perhaps reporting "100%" healthy until the moment
that it dies, and I have one here just like the day I plugged it in 2 years ago, except
it's noise has perhaps changed a pinch in the past little bit?

INTEL supposedly built a lot of "fudge-factor" into the life-expectancy of their
NAND SSD's, and I guess we who have purchased X25-M or X25-E will at some
point find out how accurate all of that is.

Anyone pump a bunch of data through an X25-M that has dropped below 99% life
according to the new INTEL SSD tool? Do you feel like it is wearing out before
your eyes!

 

[vischo]

Calm down.

 

[isp]

media wearout indicator? im at 99

 

[C-rizzle]

depending on how its coded as soon as you start using it you may drop from 100% to 99%

As any use drops you from a full 100%. 100% is absolute.

or it could be once you go from 100% down to 99.49% that it starts showing 99%, but my guess is it will be at 99% for quite some time, as it probably drops as soon as you start using the drive.

I'd bet everyone surveyed says 99%!!!

Does anyone's say 100% on a clean OS install?

And if you're says less than 99% what the hell have you been doing with your drive?

 

[okashira]

im at 98. Ive done like 4 secure erases tho, heh

says only 568 gb written.

 

[x3sphere]

I think you'd have to write around 500GB to the drive each day to completely kill it in 5 years - so don't worry, it'll last you awhile..

 

[aamsel]

Calm down.

Well, I try to, but...damn, if only I could !!

I think you'd have to write around 500GB to the drive each day to completely kill it in 5 years - so don't worry, it'll last you awhile..

Cool, thanks.
I am now far less worried about the 800GB I wrote to it in a week.

With it having 160GB capacity, I thought that writing 5x that quickly would be a big deal.