[Hardware] 5 programs to know how life fits your SSD

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As most of you already know, all SSDs have a limited life expectancy, as unlike traditional mechanical hard drives, memory cells have a limited number of writes. For this reason, and especially if you have been using the same SSD for a while, it is always good to know how much useful life it has left to be able to react in time before the SSD becomes unusable. In this article, we talk about 5 programs to know this information.

Actually, a modern SSD can last you a lifetime, but by knowing how much life is left in the SSD, you can always prevent it from going into read-only mode and having to react late to problems. By being proactive, or as they say, “better safe than sorry”, you can avoid disaster and swap out your SSD for a new one before it happens. Let's see what options we have for it.

Aida64, the best to know the life of your SSD
Aida64 is the successor software to the famous Everest, and it is surely the most complete program to know the status of our hardware since it incorporates a myriad of options for it. Of course, among these options we find that of knowing the useful life that the SSD has left, at least in terms of percentage. To do this, you simply have to open the program and go to Storage -> SMART, where you will find all the data you need.

As you can see in the screenshot that we have given you above, our SSD has been on for a total of 243 days (this is a sum of the hours that the unit has been on, the reality is that it has been used for a little over 2 years), and in that time almost 15 and a half TB of information have been written to it. According to data from the drive itself, it still has 96% life left, so nothing to worry about for now.

With CrystalDisk Info you will have to calculate it
CrystalDisk Info is a well-known tool to find out the status of any storage unit, but the downside is that it doesn't specifically tell us how long an SSD has left to live, although it is true that we can calculate it ourselves.

 

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