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That talk with an IT director about SSD health monitoring
Was troubleshooting a client's slow server last week. The IT director said he never checks drive wear levels until something breaks. Now I'm wondering - how many of you actually track SSD lifespan proactively versus just waiting for failure?
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violatorres4mo ago
Set up a quick cron job to email a report with SSD wear levels once a month. Takes ten minutes to automate and saves you from explaining to a client why their data vanished without a warning.
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paul2513mo ago
Haven't some SSDs started shipping with a 'sudden power loss' that actually makes them more predictable about when they'll fail, or am I remembering that wrong? Pretty sure the death isn't always as sudden as people make it sound.
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thea8574mo ago
Hold up though, "until something breaks" is actually a bad way to handle SSDs. They don't really fail like old hard drives where you get clicks and warnings first. They just go read-only or straight up die without much notice. Checking wear levels is super easy, like one or two commands in most systems, and it takes maybe 30 seconds. Why wouldn't you just look at it during regular maintenance instead of playing roulette with someone's data? Plus, SMART data for SSDs actually gives you a percentage life left, so it's not even guessing work. Feels like lazy IT to me, not a smart strategy.
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