26.07.2016 21:22
26.07.2016 21:06
OCZ Vector 180 SSD
A lot of time passed since I bought Intel X25-M SSD. From that time it server me great. After more than five years there is 1 realocated sector, wearout level is second time on 98% (got fixed by FW update to 100%) it has a runtime of almost 2 years. The question is obvious - why to change it? It has "only" Sata 3.0 Gb/s and 80GB got somewhat tight place. Why did I choose the OCZ Vector 180 and not e.g. Samsung 850 Pro? Well I think Samsung is over marketed (10y warranty for SSD? Really? What for?), maybe I like more Japan (well OCZ is not Japan) than Korea. OCZ seems a less feature and less error prone product, OCZ SSD GURU utility supports Linux.. this is it. :)
Intel X25-M after 5+ years
SMART info:
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.6.4-201.fc23.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 SSDs
Device Model: INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GN
Serial Number: CVPO027300TA080JGN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001517 95937b5b7
Firmware Version: 2CV102M3
User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes [80.0 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Tue Jul 26 20:49:26 2016 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 1) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x71) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 5
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0020 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 16355
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2149
192 Unsafe_Shutdown_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 112
225 Host_Writes_32MiB 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 116596
226 Workld_Media_Wear_Indic 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5052110
227 Workld_Host_Reads_Perc 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5
228 Workload_Minutes 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3091708703
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 090 Pre-fail Always - 0
The transfer speed did not drop any significant portion, while the drive is almost full.
Toshiba OCZ Vector 180
This is "long life" branch of OCZ SSD drives. It has higher warranty (5y) and MLC cells that are less prone to wearout than TLC.
SMART info:
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.6.4-201.fc23.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: TOSHIBA-VT180
Serial Number: 569P60C0P8SU
LU WWN Device Id: 5 e83a97 100097848
Firmware Version: 1.00
User Capacity: 240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Tue Jul 26 20:59:19 2016 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x1d) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Abort Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging NOT supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 0) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 0) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 18
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 2
171 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 83032912
174 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 47
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
208 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
210 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
224 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 1
225 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
226 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 100
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 76
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 3
249 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 2542405
hdparm -tT
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 3118 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1560.24 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1310 MB in 3.00 seconds = 436.51 MB/sec
Interesting is the graph, showing there is some "step" in the performance.
refs.: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9009/ocz-vector-180-240gb-480gb-960gb-ssd-review
Update 10.1.2020: After 4 years the disk started to have a failures at read to date it has 42 realocated sectors due to the read errors. This is bad I am going to issue a replacement within waranty. This is what OCZ SSD Guru reported before final backup:
ID ATTRIBUTE STATUS VALUE WORST THRESHOLD RAW
5 Accumulated Runtime Bad Blocks 0 31 31 0 31
9 Power-On Hours Count 0 100 100 0 14263
12 Device Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 0 1371
171 Available OP Sector Count 0 100 100 0 82525008
174 Device Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 0 30
(unplanned)
190 Temperature 0 100 100 0 37
195 Total Programming Failures 0 100 100 0 0
196 Total Erase Failures 0 100 100 0 0
197 Total Read Failures 0 100 100 0 31
(uncorrectable)
208 Average Erase Count 0 100 100 0 93
210 SATA CRC Error Count 0 100 100 0 0
224 In Warranty 0 100 100 0 1
225 DAS Polarity 0 100 100 0 0 (normal)
226 Partial Pfail 0 100 100 0 0 (ok)
233 Lifetime Remaining 0 97 97 0 97
241 Host Writes (GiB) 0 100 100 0 6337
242 Host Reads (GiB) 0 100 100 0 4183
249 Total NAND Programming Count 0 100 100 0 434403630
I've lost 225kB may not look that terrible, but is not good either. It is a bit disappointing as the Intel X25 is still in the service and has no issues.