Hard Disk Monitoring

I appreciate the detailed response, which is helpful. Many thanks.

There still seems to be so much confusion surrounding SSD longevity. There are many people suggesting that the latest generation of SSDs, including the Crucial ones, should outlive the average standard HDD (provided you use TRIM, which I do). My SSD is purely used as an OS disc. I write all data to ...

I am trying to understand the health rating for my SSD (50 per cent). It is a 64GB 2.5" Crucial RealSSD C300. The health value is apparently determined by S.M.A.R.T. attribute #202 Percentage Of The Rated Lifetime Used. Other than this value, HDSentinel reports that 'The status of the solid sta...