I downloaded and installed "Crystal Disk Info" a few days ago to monitor my SSD. The SSD showed 100% life until today when it clicked down to 99% at the measured parameters shown.
Anyone know what kind of algorithm is used to determine the remaining SSD life? If a SSD was used a lot on nearly a daily basis it seems the life could decrease around 5~6% per year (?). If it was 5% a year, it would still take many years to hit say 25% life left. But do SSDs actually run reliably down to or very near 0% life remaining? Or should they be replaced at some level like 20~25% life left?
So what do people do when their SSD is getting near the "end of life" ... or goes bad prematurely and it needs to be replaced? Make an ISO image of their old SSD on an external drive, then re-image that onto the newly installed SSD?
Not sure if the "Power On Counts" includes restarts (reboots without a full power off) or not. It must since I haven't had this thing long enough to do that many true power down and on cycles.
Anyone know what kind of algorithm is used to determine the remaining SSD life? If a SSD was used a lot on nearly a daily basis it seems the life could decrease around 5~6% per year (?). If it was 5% a year, it would still take many years to hit say 25% life left. But do SSDs actually run reliably down to or very near 0% life remaining? Or should they be replaced at some level like 20~25% life left?
So what do people do when their SSD is getting near the "end of life" ... or goes bad prematurely and it needs to be replaced? Make an ISO image of their old SSD on an external drive, then re-image that onto the newly installed SSD?
Not sure if the "Power On Counts" includes restarts (reboots without a full power off) or not. It must since I haven't had this thing long enough to do that many true power down and on cycles.