On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 13:20:30 -0400, wrote:
SSD has Toolbox software, and will tell you "Percent Life".
I have no idea how to access this if it's there. Certainly not anything obvious.

What os are you using? On linux the command smartctl shows the values.
For example on my oldest ssd drive, an OCZ-AGILITY4 I bought in 2013, the values
extracted from "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" ...
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0000 005 000 000 Old_age Offline - 5
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 70573
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 457
232 Lifetime_Writes 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 80038320628
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0000 094 000 000 Old_age Offline - 94

According to https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki..._of_Intel_SSDs
the Media_Wearout_Indicator starts at 100 and decreases, so after 80 billion
writes over 8 years, it still has some life left in it. :-)

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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