As most of you already know, all SSDs have a limited life expectancy, because unlike traditional mechanical hard drives, memory cells have a limited number of writes. For this reason, and especially if you’ve been using the same SSD for a while, it’s always good to know how much life is 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.
In fact, a modern SSD can last a lifetime, but by knowing the SSD’s remaining life, 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, “prevention is better than cure”, you can avoid disaster and swap your SSD for a new one before it happens. Let’s see what options we have for this.
Aida64, the best to know the lifespan of your SSD
Aida64 is the successor software of the famous Everest, and it is surely the most complete program to know the state of our hardware since it integrates 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 just need 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 we gave you above, our SSD was on for a total of 243 days (this is the sum of the hours the unit was on, the reality is that it has been used for a little over 2 years), and during this time almost 15.5 TB of information has been written to it. According to data from the drive itself, it still has 96% life remaining, so nothing to worry about right now.
With CrystalDisk Info you will have to calculate it
CrystalDisk Info is a well-known tool for knowing 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, even if it’s true that we can calculate it ourselves.
As you can see, here the software tells us that 15,860 GB has been written to our SSD. What we need to know is the TBW data of the unit, and with this we can do the calculation to find out how much we have left. In our example, this disk has a durability of 1400 TBW, and since about 16 TB has been written, we can say that we have about 90% writes left. As you can see, different tools can give us different data…in this case, CrystalDisk Info is theoretical because the calculation is based on the specifications of the SSD, not the actual data read by the software.
SSDLife Pro gives you approximate data
The name of this software says it all, and in this case it will indicate a rough (or rather estimated) figure of the unit’s remaining life. This calculation is based on how long it’s been on and how much wear it has at the time of the query, so it’s pretty accurate.
As you can see in the screenshot on the left, this tells us that the unit has practically 10 years of life left (in this case the example is another one, different from the previous ones).
HWiNFO also tells you the remaining life of the SSD
HWiNFO is another of the programs that have accompanied us for years, hardware enthusiasts, especially because it is able to obtain reports on all the hardware of the PC, as well as measure all the sensors of the equipment in real time . But for what we are interested in this article, it will also help us to know how much time the SSD has left.
To do this, you will have to display the Hard disks section then search for your SSD according to its type (in our case it is NVMe). There you can see in the “Device status” section the remaining life, calculated in the same way as Aida64.
Hard Disk Sentinel, “the other option”
Finally, HD Sentinel is a program with a somewhat old interface, just like the program itself, but it works well enough to know how much time our SSD has left.
In this case, this program will tell us the health of the unit in terms of percentage, but it will also give us an estimate of the remaining life that the unit has left (where it says “Duration estimated remaining life”).
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