S.M.A.R.T. is giving wrong readings about remaining life span
Just this morning I've been getting the SMART warning while booting that one of my SSDs (ADATA SP900) is about to fail. I wasn't worried that it actually would, I knew it was a false reading. I went into the BIOS and disabled the SMART check to be able to boot the System. After booting I checked AIDA for the SMART information and it actually shows a remaining lifespan of 1%.
For a few reason I'm checking my systems information regularly. Just a week ago the same SSD showed a remaining lifespan of 94%. It has a total runtime of 253 days. I suspect either a false reading or a build in kill switch that lets SMART give wrong reading to force the normal user to buy a new drive. I've done some testing on the drive to see if anything changed. I wrote 10GB on it and a few PowerPoint files. Everything was written with full speed and without any errors which is why I strongly believe SMART is trolling me.
Do any of you know if there's a way to override this specific SMART feature to stop it from giving me error messages on boot? My ASUS x99 AII doesn't allow me to disable smart for just one drive, only for all which isn't what I want. Or if possible a solution to make SMART calculate the right remaining lifespan?
Drive informations and hardware specifications: http://ift.tt/2vJ51kt
Submitted August 30, 2017 at 03:09PM by LoneWolf2635 http://ift.tt/2vruhjT
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