Is the drive going bad? Should I junk the drive?

waggs1999

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I just ran OCZ Smart utility on my drive and this is what came back. The drive is an OCZ Vertex 3. I have had it for about 7 months now.
ID ATTRIBUTE STATUS VALUE WORST THRESHOLD TYPE UPDATED RAW
1 Raw Read Error Rate 0x000f 102 102 050 Pre-fail Always 0/6741643
5 Retired Block Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always 0
9 Power-On Hours 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 4519h+15m+49.370s
12 Device Power Cycle Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old age Always 441
171 Program Fail Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 0
172 Erase Fail Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 0
174 Unexpected Power Loss 0x0030 000 000 000 Old age Offline 105
177 Wear Range Delta 0x0000 000 000 000 Old age Offline 1
181 Program Fail Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 0
182 Erase Fail Count 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 0
187 Reported Uncorrectable 0x0032 100 100 000 Old age Always 0
194 Temperature Celsius 0x0022 030 030 000 Old age Always 30 (Min/Max 30/30)
195 ECC On-the-Fly Error Count 0x001c 120 120 000 Old age Offline 0/6741643
196 Reallocation Event Count 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always 0
201 Uncorrectable Soft Read Error Rate 0x001c 120 120 000 Old age Offline 0/6741643
204 Soft ECC Correction Rate 0x001c 120 120 000 Old age Offline 0/6741643
230 Life Curve Status 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always 100
231 SSD Life Left 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always 0
241 Lifetime Writes from Host 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 7534
242 Lifetime Reads to Host 0x0032 000 000 000 Old age Always 4247
 
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^^^Why would you say that? Drive seems 100% fine. 0 errors everywhere.

My Vertex 3 has same status, since day one, except is has 12156h Power-On. It's a 60Gb drive, I've never had an error, and yes I do checksums.

I'm amazed how many Tb of data that I have stomped on it again and again. And it's always been pretty fast. I don't regret my purchase.