[ale] OT SSD remaining lifetime indicator

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi guys,

I was doing research on SSD's and ran across this.  It's an SSD remaining lifetime indicator.  It monitors your ssd's and indicates their health as a percentage from 0 - 100%.  It also gives an estimated end of life date which continually updates based on your usage of the drive.  It does all this by monitoring the SMART data from the drive and the number of write cycles.  I don't know anything about it other than what's on the website, but it looks pretty cool.  Unfortunately for this group, it's a Windows program.  However, it might be possible to run it under Wine or find something that does the same thing in Linux.  According to the website, when the drive's life has expired, it becomes a read only device, like a giant dvd rom.  The data SHOULD still be there and remain readable.  How long it remains readable, I have no idea.

http://www.ssd-life.com/

Sincerely,

Ron


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