macpro burning through hard drives -- ? video card pulling too much power?

[Daniel J. Luke]

> I'm still not comfortable with SSDs that cannot tell you their health status until they finally run out of spare blocks...

Most SSDs have a smart attribute that lets you know how much wear is left on them (I have a Samsung SSD with attribute 177 and a Micron with attribute 202 which run from 100 down to 0 when the drive is 'used up')

I haven't had any personal drives around long enough to tell if they're likely to die before then or not (I have backups on spinning rust). With my usage patterns, I'll almost certainly end up wanting to replace these drives before they get down to 50% anyway...

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Daniel J. Luke