then where it shows ‘Total_LBAs_Written’, to the right of that you will see ‘RAW_VALUE’ which will have a large number there. then you take that large number and use the following formula to convert to TBW (I am just using the number my Samsung 850 EVO 250GB showed me the other day)…

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Portable SSDs are a great way to boost your system. Learn more about the benefits of external SSDs, how they work and more, at Crucial Micron’s replacement gate architecture combines both charge traps with the company’s CMOS-under array technology, allowing for a 30% smaller die size when compared to competitors’ flash. When compared to the company’s previous-generation 96L TLC, the new replacement gate flash replaces the polysilicon gates with metal and takes advantage of a different etching method, resulting in greatly reduced cell-to-cell capacitive coupling issues, lowered resistance levels, and allows for increased program pulse ramping. All this works in unison to provide not only lower read and write latencies and boosted throughput, but also improved reliability and endurance.As I just said, there are no guarantees — my SSDs could still fail at any time. That they’re “young” in terms of TBW would indicate that the risk is low of that particular kind of failure, but the risk is never zero. Besides, there are so many other ways that things could fail beyond the SSDs wearing out or having wear or internal problems. Hi Leo. Thanks for the article. I installed CrystalDiskinfo and I noticed one of the items it lists is E7- SSD Life Left. Mine has 00000000000063 under Raw Values. Do you know what this means? Reply When I use Clonezilla to image my SSD (boot drive) occasionally I save a image to my regular hard drive about once every month or two. or on the occasion I might be doing something a bit more risky, ill make a Clonezilla image before I do it. I found this description of that value: “SSD Life Left. Supported by few manufacturers, this parameter represents calculated lifespan remaining in the disk based on certain equations. When normalized, it reads 100 (100%) for healthy drives to 1 (1%) for dead SSD’s. Sometimes replaced with Percentage of the Rated Lifetime Used.” — 63 hex is 99% life left, so I’d say you’re in great shape. :-) (Source: https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/predicting-ssd-failures-ssd-specific-smart-values.htm ) Reply Now, maybe that’s a typo and maybe it isn’t, but if I were you, I sure the h*ll wouldn’t take that chance!

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According to the program “CrystalDiskInfo” my Total Host Writes = 5039 GB after two years of usage. That is equal to 5.039 TB. My SSD is a Samsung 860 Pro 1 TB. How can my usage be 5.039 on a 1 TB SSD drive? Thanks for a great report!!!The specifications for an SSD model may include a TBW, or “terabytes written” measure of the minimum life expectancy. You can then use a tool to examine the amount of data written to your drive to determine how close to the TBW it is. The drive may last longer or fail earlier, but this lets you judge your risk against the manufacturer’s expectations based on your current usage. SSD guarantees Speaking of which, while the P1 leveraged a Silicon Motion SM2263EN NVMe controller and the P2 used Phison’s E13T, Crucial’s P5 features the company’s first, and quite beastly, consumer NVMe SSD controller. The controller interfaces with the host over a PCIe 3.0 x4 link and communicates via the NVMe 1.3 protocol. Please define what “write” actually means. I assume that any time you create a Word document or an Excel file, each letter and or number that you key in constitutes a “write.” If I am wrong then please set me straight. Thanks for a great report! Reply