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    samsung pm810 owners of M17x R3 users / SSD health

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by maxheap, Jun 12, 2012.

  1. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    this is what i got, ive never had any problems out of mine.
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    I wouldn't worry too much, they are just estimating health based on common factors. The PM810/830 drives are rated at absolutely insane use lengths. I don't have the specific numbers anymore, but it is many years, like 8+ years if you average writing 40 gigs a day or something like that. The drive should out last your computer.
     
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    that's weird. Both your drives are showing too much wear for such new SSD's.

    The health goes down as your wear increases. 1 health percent down for every 30 wear levelling

    I'll run a ssdlife on my M4 later today just for something to compare to
     
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    I don't know how that application works, but I had it showing 91% health like 3 days after I got my system. A month later and hundreds or thousands of gigabytes of data later and it still showed 91%. My trial is expired so I can't check now, but I didn't feel like it was a very legit linear measure of drive health.
     
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    if not SSD (I hope it is not cpu bound as the freezes occured during matlab sessions), then any 7970m owners get freezes?

    (Thanks Slick for your time, I will be waiting your message) Also thanks all for their input!
     
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    yeah, it may not be linear, but it at least gives me peace of mind when the app says my drive it good for another 9 years lol

    and this is weird. Why is it that it doesn't say what the expected life is on those 2 Samsung SSD runs? It just says calculating? This perhaps could be an bug with SSD life and these drives
     
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    How SSD lifetime are calculated? - OnLine SSDlife

    specifically: 2. The estimated lifetime is calculated depending on the amount of data written to the drive. If it is not calculated yet, it means that little data has been written to it. Simply wait a bit, it does not usually take more than a week (or two) after the first launch of the program.
     
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