I have an SSD that’s around 5 years old now. It used to be in my laptop. But then I upgraded my laptop and put it in a homeserver. It still works perfectly well but from what I’ve read, SSDs fail suddenly without much prior indications.
Do you think I should replace it already? It’s not running any super important stuff. If it dies, it’ll just mean that my media servers will be down for a day, not a super big deal since I have regular backups. I feel bad creating unnecessary e-waste, so I’ll love to know your experience with SSDs and how frequently do you usually replace them.
Also, if you know a tool which can help me detect remaining lifespan of an SSD, that’ll be very helpful. Thanks.
If it ain’t broke…
You have regular backups already. Unless you want to add fault tolerance with something like RAID, I don’t see why you need to buy anything right now.
I’d say keep using your SSD and add frequent backups to your weekly or even daily schedule.
Run hdparm on it and note the percentage used. If it’s near 100% it may degrade soon (though drives can hit 120% and still function).
