Is the drive defective?

[agalpha]

This is my SSD that I've been using for a while now. Until now I never really checked the health or anything. My friend insisted that I do.
These are the screenshots of the softwares and the SMART values they are giving.

According to my knowledge the SMART values or Current and Worst need to be above the Threshold value. So does this mean the drive is failing? or does it mean that these values are specific to the vendor and don't mean anything based on the final verdict these softwares are giving.

 

[RolandJS]

Have you been making routine backups onto external media? Personally, I would prepare to install a replacement SSD, I believe generally SMART stats and warnings should be taken at face value -- the device is probably, possibly, heading for imminent failure.

 

[dextermat]

I find out that SMART /software on SSD tends to over react.

I have had at least 5 SSD in my pc and I had freeze and shutdowns when playing games on them.

On most of them, they would loose a lot of health but only had a few bad sectors and the drive was "fine" all of them are still working fine with 20-30 bad sectors.

The other thing I found is that firmware update usually stop of slowdown the collection of bad sectors.

If the drive is giving you problems, I would RMA it.

 

[RolandJS]

Dexter, thanks for the gracious heads-up about SSDs! I mostly have delt with platter-driven HDs, again, thanks for the info

 

[agalpha]

Thanks for the replies. Apparently I came across a dell page specific to my SSD model. It had a firmware update and one of the fixes stated there was "incompatibility with most SMART utilities". I went ahead and installed the firmware update for my drive after which the SMART results changed.