On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 09:43:58 GMT Andrea Conti wrote: > On 17/03/20 10:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:35:10 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > >> The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel quite > >> confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. > > > > What are you using to get that niformation? > > smartctl -A /dev/sdX > > All SSDs I have expose a "life left" attribute, altough the specific > name and encoding of the value will vary.
Hm. My NVMe boot drive doesn't show a lifetime attribute, but my two 1TB SSDs do, and they both show 100%, which makes me suspicious that either the data are not being collected or they're being misinterpreted. -- Regards, Peter.
