12-30-2011 03:11 PM
example...
New ssd drive, day by day working and after some time cells by cells go death.whether the dead cells lead to corruption/loss of data or a only reduction in capacity??? I need to buy new 30 pcs for my dtp workflow and look at intel 510 ssd.thanks
05-17-2012 12:21 PM
bump??? no one have answer?
how to scan for death cells?
05-17-2012 12:35 PM
Its highly depend of architecture of SSD. Some SSD`s have spare cells area, so for some time they could compensate cell disposal (no capacity loss), some SSD`s use special algorithms for writing data into cells, using error correction codes (no data loss), some have both kind losses simultaneously. And Intel use SSD controllers from many vendors. If I remember correctly, in 510 Marvell controller used, so it have some error correction, but no spare zone.
05-18-2012 11:18 AM
Just like with traditional HDDs, you can use SMART for monitoring drive health. ID 05 Reallocated Sector Count in RAW view will show how many cells of your SSD retired.