SSD dying within a month

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Last month I bought an SSD to migrate my Linux root to. Things have been fine for the most part, but within the last week I’ve gotten two hard freezes that’ve required me to boot into my ISO and run e2fsck, and yesterday after doing that I ran smartctl to find out my SSD is already at old age/pre-fail.

With that being said, what should I do to avoid this happening in the future? I’m already planning to buy a different SSD from a different brand (the one I was using was from Acer), and I’ve already tried writing as little as possible to the SSD, only doing updates every 2 weeks.

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Something is very wrong if your drive is in pre-fail condition after a month.

Can we see the full output of your smart data?

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I’ve been having problems with e2fsck lately. This is a long shot, ensure that you have the latest version of e2fsprogs

pacman -Q e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs 1.47.0-1

and maybe re-install e2fsprogs.

Pudge

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What brand of ssd and model is it? That’s could be 90% of the problem. Not all hardware is equal. :wink:

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Acer SA100. No, I’m not using a laptop, just a desktop whose motherboard would require me to uninstall both my GPU and my CPU’s fan to install an M.2 SSD.

I’ve read more reviews about it online, and it seems like I’m not alone when it comes to the drive preparing to die after a month.

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That Acer SSD is covered under 3 year warranty so it should be able to be replaced through Acer.

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Are you reading it correctly?
This is from smartctl man page.

The Attribute table printed out by smartctl also shows the “TYPE” of the Attribute. Attributes are one of two possible types: Pre-failure or Old age. Pre-failure Attributes are ones which, if less than or equal to their threshold values, indicate pending disk failure. Old age, or usage Attributes, are ones which indicate end-of-product life from old-age or normal aging and wearout, if the Attribute value is less than or equal to the threshold. Please note: the fact that an Attribute is of type ‘Pre-fail’ does not mean that your disk is about to fail! It only has this meaning if the Attribute’s current Normalized value is less than or equal to the threshold value.

This is example of perfectly fine yet relatively old disk. 
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   084   064   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       242448508
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   099   098   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   094   094   020    Old_age   Always       -       7147
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   074   060   045    Pre-fail  Always       -       27574058
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   077   077   000    Old_age   Always       -       20958 (243 59 0)
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   097   097   020    Old_age   Always       -       4055
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   076   056   040    Old_age   Always       -       24 (Min/Max 19/24)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   048   048   000    Old_age   Always       -       105826
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   024   044   000    Old_age   Always       -       24 (0 12 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       5612 (158 190 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       12555029302
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       23097099577
254 Free_Fall_Sensor        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
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Warranty?

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Welcome to the EndeavourOS forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Don’t worry about the Flag, sometimes one gets a Flag on their first post.
I approved your post so all is good.

Pudge

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