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OVH delivered a 160GB SSD with 68,303 hours on it – is this safe?
Today I received a server KS-B with a 160 GB INTEL SSDSC2BB160G4 SSD (rated for 100 TBW), but it shows 394 TBW written and 68,303 power-on hours (~7.8 years). No errors, no bad sectors, and very few reboots.
What would you do in this situation? Keep the server, or cancel it due to data reliability concerns?
DEVICE INFO
Model: INTEL SSDSC2BB160G4
Launch Year: 2013
Firmware: D2012370
Capacity: 160 GB
Form Factor: 2.5"
SATA: 6 Gb/s
SMART support: Enabled
Rated Endurance: 100 TBW (Intel specification)
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If you want new hardware don’t buy old hardware
If you ever wonder, most KS delivered with very old drives. Backup is our own responsiblities despite new or old drives.
Unless the drive is broken or failed, OVH may not replace the old drives like old days anymore.
i'd probably ask them if it's possible to get a less used disk, but if you're set on keep or cancel i guess just cancel and move on.
I know, I don’t mind using old hardware. What worries me is that the SSD’s lifespan is near its limit, and the data stored on it could degrade, since I’ll only be using it to store documents. I’m not sure what to do—whether to use it or switch to another server with a drive that has fewer TBW used.
Damn you should write books
The ones about motivation and life coaching tips.
Even if you get a drive with fewer TBW doesn't necessarily mean you are safe either. Do Backups and turn on Monitoring with Proactive Intervention in the OVH panel
I mean... What do you expect if someone offers you a 160GB SATA SSD, this is the kind of stuff you will get.
They will probably not replace it unless it is broken.
But to answer your question, no it's not save to use. You should not consider any disk save to use.
Even a factory new enterprise disk can fail tomorrow.
That is why we do backups.
Keep it - I've seen S3500 series SSDs with a lot more TBW than rated. These are just so fucking hard to kill. I can't remember having a dead S3500 in the last 5 years.
Thank you
SMART reporting wasn’t always perfect with these drives, and going off memory here, but I believe with these the one you really want to look at is the Media_Wearout_Indicator. The value of that was always the best indicator in my experience for remaining writes. You have about 16% left, but with the larger S3500 they started showing write performance problems at around 1%. I’m assuming the 160GB would be similar, and you’d want to replace it before it hits 1%.
Interesting, not my experience with the 240GB S3500’s at least. We had entire batches of them run out of writes as reported by the SMART data. We started replacing them the moment they reported less than 10% writes left. The S3510 and S3520 series performed much better in this regard.
Fcking nailed it
Nicely aged enterprise MLC drive made on bigger nodes, I think those are still pretty good compared to modern stuff. As long as you don't use it for intensive database operations.
I bought this server and all the disks are used, hehehe.
Ovh drives are really solid they use enterprise grade hardware I got a server in 2021 and the HDD was already 5 years old and now its 2025 and it still runs perfectly with no errors I stilll keep backups daily I take incremental backups and once a month I take a full backup of whole server
Hey! You got a nice little upgrade! 160 GB instead of 120 – BAM!
I wouldn’t care about the age.
Every file you store on a single-disk system must be insignificant anyway – so why bother at all?
Brand new disks can also fail 😄
Why not get a VPS somewhere?
Ask for a disk replacement due to exceeded TBW. Keep in mind that you may receive a smaller one.
In the end, I decided to cancel it and went with the KS-LE-C that was still available.
To my surprise, I received the KS-LE-C with the following specs:
Double RAM + double hard drive space (8TB) with significantly fewer hours of use and no errors
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2
64 GiB DDR3 1600 MHz
2 HDD x 4TB HGST HUS724040ALA640 (HITACHI-WD)
With some bad luck you get one with a lot more TBW.
But to be honest, TWB doesnt say much about the reliability of the SSD.
Sometimes almost new SSDs fail while very old ones just continues chugging along.
That’s how every addiction to the OVH lottery starts.