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    Is my SSD normal?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by seiyafan, Nov 5, 2011.

  1. seiyafan

    seiyafan Notebook Evangelist

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    HDD Life OnLine

    Very high B5 count.

    Also do you guys check write-cache buffer flushing or not?
     
    seiyafan, Nov 5, 2011
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    No, not normal.

    You need Firmware 009 on your M4. :)
     
    tilleroftheearth, Nov 5, 2011
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  3. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    ^^^ I'm sure he has fw 0009; once I send my report online it shows my fw as 0001 as well. That's an error.

    About the B5 thing, idk. But i've got a high number there as well and my drive is fairly new with not much heavy usage; so i'm sure it's nothing to be worried about.

    As for me, by default the write-cache buffer flushing setting was unchecked. Tbh not sure what that gives or takes; from my own testing (via benchmark) I didn't see any performance increase nor decrease....

    some reading...

    FYI: For the enable write caching option I would leave that checked. It gives better performance/speed.....
     
    makaveli72, Nov 6, 2011
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  4. Dufus

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    Are you sure that SMART data is being interpreted correctly? Seems like 3 16-bit values to me for B5.

    IMO program fail count is likely A1, note that pages are programmed not blocks unless they are calling a page a block just to confuse the matter.
     
    Dufus, Nov 6, 2011
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