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And make sure you install smartmontools and use the smartctl command<br>
to see what the lifetime writes are and what the SSD is reporting as<br>
its remaining lifetime or % used or whichever way it reports that. I<br>
have smartctl set up to monitor all my drives (SSD and spinning rust)<br>
and report any problems via email and popup messages. This has saved<br>
me many times when a drive has started to die.<br>
_______________________________________________<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Stephen,</div><div><br></div><div>I know that in the past you've shared some of your useful scripts and wondered if you had anything to share which would help with automating the smartctl reporting.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been running it manually every few weeks (except when I forget) and I've caught a couple of failing drives with it - and missed one.</div><div><br></div><div>The bit I'm most unsure of is how to automatically interpret the results and convert them to a warning, particularly as some of my drives report some strange numbers in some of the checks, which I think can probably be ignored.</div><div><br></div><div>I generally just go by whether the short test completes successfully but I think I should be checking whether some of the failure counts are going up?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>