4 Wear Leveling Count on 48th day of purchase (SSD)

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ImperialCavalry

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Wear Leveling Count 4(real value) 99(current) 96(worst) 0(threshold) GOOD

is this normal values for 48th day of purchase?
all other values are zero, I'm paying extreme attention to my Samsung SSD to not do heavy tasks such as large data copying or heavy writing reading, however -somehow- this rate keep increasing whatever I do, my all games on a spinning drive which Seagate 500GB, its so different for me to see a 3 years old HDD still resisting to heavy tasks like 6-7 hours downloading a game on Steam (meaning 6-7 hours of writing data
to disk), deleting a 30-40 GB with a click and rendering a 1080p video to disk. Its simply
amazing but in the other hand (as far as I see) a modern Samsung 250GB SSD giving little alerts
like this, I hope I'm wrong because I know that Wear Leveling Count related to lifespan

what I'm doing wrong? can any one please give me long information about this SMART
value? instead of short replies or links to samsung website, I'm sorry if I ask too much

thanks in advance
 
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Sakkura
The current value for the wear leveling count can be considered the percentage of drive endurance that's left. In your case that would be 99%. So in 48 days you've knocked about 1% off its anticipated lifespan, meaning it would last around 4800 days total. That's 13 years.

Since the heaviest use tends to be in the first phase of ownership (where you first install Windows etc), and this rating tends to be conservative, the drive could last a lot longer than those 13 years.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8239/update-on-samsung-850-pro-endurance-vnand-die-size
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Samsung magician is software available for download on Samsungs website, that will display drive health, wear leveling indicatior, TB written and other smart attributes, usually in a way easier to read than Speccy.

The EVO series drives will suffer from more wear than a PRO as it uses TLC NAND and not MLC. TLC is not good for write heavy environments, they are more suited to read oriented workloads.

Can you download and install Samsung Magician and tell us the wear indication it shows and the TB written?
 
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The current value for the wear leveling count can be considered the percentage of drive endurance that's left. In your case that would be 99%. So in 48 days you've knocked about 1% off its anticipated lifespan, meaning it would last around 4800 days total. That's 13 years.

Since the heaviest use tends to be in the first phase of ownership (where you first install Windows etc), and this rating tends to be conservative, the drive could last a lot longer than those 13 years.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8239/update-on-samsung-850-pro-endurance-vnand-die-size
 
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photonboy

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Hi,
There should be no reason to worry about your Samsung wearing out. You simply don't have the capability to do it.

TBW is probably about 100TB, meaning the drive may not have endurance issues until you've written about 100Terabytes (100,000 GB's approx) of data.

I'm too lazy to look up the exact amount, but it's simply a non-issue for a desktop user.
 
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photonboy

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To be more clear...

As data is written that sector wears out. At some point BEFORE it wears out the data will be moved to another location, thus enabling the drive to wear out more or less EVENLY.

After many YEARS or DECADES depending on usage the drive will start shutting off sectors completely and the capacity will diminish. Even then it will still work.

Samsung Magician will warn you long before there's any concern about when to replace the SSD (unless it's a catastrophic failure of the controller etc).
 
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