I've been trying to check whether/when my SSD should be replaced but found that the information presented by gnome-disk-utility isn't helpful. I was pointed here to begin on the quest to have this fixed. The disk is: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: SandForce Driven SSDs Device Model: OCZ-AGILITY2 Serial Number: OCZ-[sniped] LU WWN Device Id: 5 e83a97 ff826958f Firmware Version: 1.25 User Capacity: 240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6 Local Time is: Tue Apr 17 15:06:10 2012 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled MODEL: OCZ-AGILITY2 FIRMWARE: 1.25 match smartmontools Drive Database entry: MODEL REGEXP: SandForce 1st Ed\.|ADATA SSD S599 .?..GB|Corsair CSSD-F(40|60|80|120|160|240)GBP?2.*|FTM(06|12|24|48)CT25H|OCZ[ -](AGILITY2([ -]EX)?|COLOSSUS2|ONYX2|VERTEX2|VERTEX-LE)( [123]\..*)?|OCZ[ -](VELO|VERTEX2[ -](EX|PRO))( [123]\..*)?|OCZ-VERTEX3|(APOC|DENC|DENEVA|FTNC|GFGC|MANG|MMOC|NIMC|TMSC).*|(DENR|DRSAK|EC188|NIMR|PSIR|TRSAK).*|OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD|UGB(88P|99S)GC...H[BF]. FIRMWARE REGEXP: .* MODEL FAMILY: SandForce Driven SSDs ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS: 001 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 005 Retired_Block_Count 009 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 013 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 100 Gigabytes_Erased 170 Reserve_Block_Count 171 Program_Fail_Count 172 Erase_Fail_Count 174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 177 Wear_Range_Delta 181 Program_Fail_Count 182 Erase_Fail_Count 184 IO_Error_Detect_Code_Ct 195 ECC_Uncorr_Error_Count 198 Uncorrectable_Sector_Ct 199 SATA_CRC_Error_Count 201 Unc_Soft_Read_Err_Rate 204 Soft_ECC_Correct_Rate 230 Life_Curve_Status 231 SSD_Life_Left 233 SandForce_Internal 234 SandForce_Internal 235 SuperCap_Health 241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB I also found the SMART attribute table here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?75786-SMART-Attributes-for-Sandforce-SSD-s-%28Agility2-Vertex2-VertexLE%29 But gnome-disk-utitlity (which presumably uses libatasmart is showing me differing attribute names mapped to these numbers. In particular the attribute 231 is titled "Temperature". Unfortunately the values I retrieve with for 231: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 106 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0/13859164 5 Retired_Block_Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5726h+51m+50.290s 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1733 171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0 172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0 174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0030 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 80 177 Wear_Range_Delta 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 0 181 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0 182 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 001 129 000 Old_age Always - 1 (0 127 0 129) 195 ECC_Uncorr_Error_Count 0x001c 106 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0/13859164 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 231 SSD_Life_Left 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 233 SandForce_Internal 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 1984 234 SandForce_Internal 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 2624 241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 2624 242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 7232 do not allow me interpret SSD_Life_Left 0 as anything meaningful. Hopefully this can help someone fix this information so that some type of life time estimate can be derived in the future...
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