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Awesome. I've been using this program to monitor the health of my old SSDs in that are in a RAID0 array since there isn't any other program that seem to check them when they're stuck together like that.

 

Thank you for your advice! I wonder if it is true that an SSD life is shorter than an Hard Disk one.

Thank you.

 

Signed up, received email with a key, installed, activated, and now it's all good. I was just curious; might as well see how well this works.

 

guys how good is this program?

 

It's alright. Doesn't tell me anything new (compared to Intel's SSD Toolbox). I was mainly interested if it could read temperatures, but apparently the Intel 330 SSD doesn't support that feature(?).

If it were freeware I'd get it, but for the regular $30 price I wouldn't say it's worth it.

I've used my Intel 320 160GB for a little over a year now and SMART still reports that it's "perfect". Depending on the controller used, SSDs are suppose to last for at least 5 years if a user writes/reads 20GB/day every day for 5 years (highly unrealistic; typical users use so much less data than that a day). Hell, most of the very first Intel X-18/X-25 drives are still going strong. The only bad SSDs out there are the early Sandforce drives, due to their controllers.

Certainly, SSDs should out-live mechanical drives in the real-world. I went SSD-only in my notebook as soon as I received the 320; considering the way I treat my W520 (badly), I doubt a mechanical HDD would still work in it by now.

Just a few things that might interest you:

Spoiler

http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php/topic/29329-ssd-failure-rates-compared-to-hard-drives/

 

+rep OP, thanks.

PS. Both of my drives are reported as "Excellent".
But this software scans and reports so fast, it led me to doubt.
Maybe I'm neglecting something or I'm doing something wrong?

 

Well, it only reads what the drive reports in it's S.M.A.R.T. attributes. It won't do any tests of it's own unless you run some(there are some in the 'Disk' menu in the program), but that shouldn't be necessary unless you suspect there are actually some problems.

For me, one of my SSDs reports 6 bad blocks and the other has 3 bad blocks (both have about 1800 spare blocks left) which is why I'm specifically keeping an eye on them.