I recently bought an 80gb 320 series ssd. I loaded intel toolbox and discovered (after a few months had passed after purchase from ebay) that the device has some strange properties. The drive health is almost 100%.
The smart details show:
host writes: ~433gb
timed workload media wear: 22828302 (divide by 1024 yields: 22293%)
workload read write ratio: 79
timed workload timer (in min): 2151741392
Questions:
1. It is possible to manually change the workload timer to a user defined value?
2. Is the correct procedure to divide e2 (timed workload media wear field) by 1024 to yield a percentage wear estimate?
3. The workload timer does not give a unit of time but I believe it is minutes. This number is crazy.
4. Did I buy a salvaged SSD about to get thrown in the trash that was then resold on ebay?
Sigh
If my understanding of these E1-E4 fields are correct, I believe someone manually edited some of the fields and put in gibrish that is somehow fooling the diagnostic system. It probably doesn't accept values above a certain threshold. I.e., there is no way the workload timer is right.