[SOLVED] How do you check how much data written on your disk up to today

[seriousgigi]

hi i read you can check it from smart but nobody says what smart is and how can i learn this value from it. i have evo 850 and when you open samsung software you can see how much amount of data written on your disk but it doesnt say how old your disk. also it only shows ssd disk's lifetime data writes and i have two other hard disks. googled and some guy recomended to use speccy but it doesnt show how much data written on disk too or i dont know where to look. but good thing is speecy shows how old your disk.

btw my ssd lifespan data is 33tb in two years. when it reachs to 75tbs that means disk can die at any time?

 

[USAFRet]

CrystalDiskInfo.
Shows power on hours, number of power on, and total writes.

33TBW in 2 years? Thats actually quite a lot.
What do you use this for?

 

[USAFRet]

And that "75TBW" is just the warranty number. Like the 3 or 5 years.
Doesn't mean it will die on 3 years + 1 day.

 

[seriousgigi]

i intented to use it for only windows programs but i have downloaded games from torrent too much i guess. :S :S

i checked CrystalDiskInfo but it only shows my ssd's total host writes not other disks. and my toshiba hdd is smart compatible.

here SSs;

also i have bad old hdd which i newly installed to use it for backup. never intend to use just it will stay in a box if i lost my primary backups.

 

[seriousgigi]

as you see total host writes only written for ssd. others are also compatible to smart but nothing written.

btw do uploading files from your disk have an impact on disk's life?

 

[USAFRet]

Actually, looking at my 500GB 850 EVO...your 33TBW in 20,000 hours is not much different than mine.
42TBW in 31,200 hours.

 

[seriousgigi]

so cant we learn total data writes of normal hard disks? is it special only for SSDs?

 

[USAFRet]

so cant we learn total data writes of normal hard disks? is it special only for SSDs?

That's not really a thing for spinning drives.

SSD's are different. Each cell has a certain number of write cycles, then it does not work anymore.