On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:01:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >The SSD drive also reports its own personal view of lifetime remaining >and other interesting statistics using >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T%2E. > > 173 Ave_Block-Erase_Count -O--CK 095 095 000 - 77 > 202 Percent_Lifetime_Remain ----CK 095 095 001 - 5 > >`smartctl -x /dev/sda', for example, can gather the data. Only if it's in the data base. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# smartctl -x /dev/sda | grep 'Vendor Specific SMART Attributes' -A 11 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE 9 Power_On_Hours -O--C- 100 100 000 - 16224 12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--C- 100 100 000 - 581 167 Unknown_Attribute -O---K 100 100 000 - 0 168 Unknown_Attribute -O--C- 100 100 000 - 0 169 Unknown_Attribute PO---- 100 100 010 - 0 173 Unknown_Attribute -O--C- 161 161 000 - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--C- 100 100 000 - 149 194 Temperature_Celsius PO---K 073 065 020 - 27 (Min/Max 10/35) 241 Total_LBAs_Written -O--CK 100 100 000 - 287072 ||||||_ K auto-keep For the SSDs on my machine I'm using "ocz-ssd-utility" to get erase count, lifetime percentage and other SMART information, let alone that I could update the firmware, while the SSDs are used.