510/120GB - media wearout and host writes = 0

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I have a 510 120GB drive and my media wearout and host writes are showing as 0. This makes HD Sentinel show it as IMPENDING DOOM state, and it makes intel's solid-state drive toolbox (version 3 and 2 both) show it as estimated life remaining (0). The toolbox says host writes 0.00MB. Power-on hours count is wrong, also. It's like all the SMART data comes back wrong or 0. I have an X25M-g2 80GB on the same controller and it works fine, and always has. This is a gigabyte (jmicron device) 6gbps controller, on GA0890GPA-UD3H motherboard running windows 2003 x86. I can run a TRIM on the disk just fine through the toolbox.

Does anyone have experience or clues regarding this problem?

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Running it in windows 7 now via AHCI and theres still no SMART information. Still no host writes.

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Does you BIOS have an SMART Data setting, that can be disabled? Some boards do, but I'm not sure if that would affect the 510 as you've described.

There are other SMART data monitoring tools, just search for "SMART Tools" or similar, and give them a try. But check you BIOS too.