Crucial P5 2TB CT2000P5SSD8 (3D NAND, NVMe) Internal Gaming SSD, up to 3400MB/s

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Now, maybe that’s a typo and maybe it isn’t, but if I were you, I sure the h*ll wouldn’t take that chance! Crucial’s P5 Plus helpfully comes with an M.2 screw, in case your system came without one (or you’ve lost yours in a late-night carpet tragedy). Crucial also provides the company’s own SSD toolbox and some cloning software to support the P5 Plus.

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I found this description of that value: “SSD Life Left. Supported by few manufacturers, this parameter represents calculated lifespan remaining in the disk based on certain equations. When normalized, it reads 100 (100%) for healthy drives to 1 (1%) for dead SSD’s. Sometimes replaced with Percentage of the Rated Lifetime Used.” — 63 hex is 99% life left, so I’d say you’re in great shape. :-) (Source: https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/predicting-ssd-failures-ssd-specific-smart-values.htm ) Reply You can see that the warrantied life is proportionate to size: 600TBW per terabyte of device storage, which makes sense. A device twice as big should be able to handle twice as much data in its life. I need to point out something important. Just because something is warranted for a certain amount of time, or a certain number of writes, doesn’t mean it can’t fail sooner — perhaps even much sooner. but with all of that said… while write life might give you a ball park estimate of the health of your SSD, it’s possible some other random stuff could fail on it out of no where. but assuming it only dies from writing data to it, your SSD will last a long time. but all-in-all, I don’t think it’s a stretch for a SSD to last at least 5-10 years (at least most of the name brand stuff should) and nowadays many people can easily afford to buy at least a 500GB range SSD and possibly 1TB which the write life on those is quite a bit higher than mine which means unless you go crazy writing boatloads of data to the SSD, your simply not going to wear it out for the foreseeable future. hence, just use your SSD and don’t worry ;) Replythen where it shows ‘Total_LBAs_Written’, to the right of that you will see ‘RAW_VALUE’ which will have a large number there. then you take that large number and use the following formula to convert to TBW (I am just using the number my Samsung 850 EVO 250GB showed me the other day)… Very cool! My laptop shows 235 PB written, and 416 PB read …and its “health status” is still 99%. That’s impressive. I’m a little dubious that the “power on count” is only 399, but maybe it doesn’t count reboots or booting out of hibernation. Reply Dude! You need to look at that second screenshot — the one for the Crucial CT2000P5SSD8 2TB (yeesh, what a mouthful!) — again, and more closely! sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda (NOTE: change the ‘a’ in ‘sda’ to the location of your SSD! ; one can see that by doing ‘lsblk’ (that’s LSBLK) in terminal and with the info it spits out you can reason out the location of your SSD)

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Nice article, Leo. Thanks for this, and for the many others! But I am wondering about something you didn’t mention. Crystal Disk Info listed your Samsung Evo Plus temperature in red. Why doesn’t that concern you? ReplyThe best way to increase the lifespan of an SSD (or any flash-based memory or drive) is to reduce the amount you write to it. For SSDs, that means don’t defragment them, which is a very write-intensive operation with little to no benefit for SSDs. There’s an argument that any files to which you write frequently (or even constantly, in the case of certain types of databases) are candidates to move to a non-SSD drive. In general, however, modern SSDs last long enough for this to no longer be a significant concern. Is upgrading to SSD worth it? If I have to say 2020-2021 is one of the best years as far as competition is concerned. AMD v Intel is reaching an all time high and Nvidia is having competition. Or is it doing the same as the Seagate 530 at 1,200 MTps ?Your guess is as good as mine. Unfortunately, Crucial would not disclose this information.

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If nothing else, the mere fact that they could misspeak so egregiously does NOT speak well of their reliability! :( ReplyHi Leo. Thanks for the article. I installed CrystalDiskinfo and I noticed one of the items it lists is E7- SSD Life Left. Mine has 00000000000063 under Raw Values. Do you know what this means? Reply

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The more you write to them, the more SSDs wear out. Most SSD manufacturers specify how many bytes can be written to the drive within the device’s guarantee.I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Cancel reply Please define what “write” actually means. I assume that any time you create a Word document or an Excel file, each letter and or number that you key in constitutes a “write.” If I am wrong then please set me straight. Thanks for a great report! Reply Micron’s replacement gate architecture combines both charge traps with the company’s CMOS-under array technology, allowing for a 30% smaller die size when compared to competitors’ flash. When compared to the company’s previous-generation 96L TLC, the new replacement gate flash replaces the polysilicon gates with metal and takes advantage of a different etching method, resulting in greatly reduced cell-to-cell capacitive coupling issues, lowered resistance levels, and allows for increased program pulse ramping. All this works in unison to provide not only lower read and write latencies and boosted throughput, but also improved reliability and endurance.