I have shortened the text to keep the technical information useful. Here is the summary of my exchange with SanDisk. How else can I at least check the Read/Write Life Cycles and or Temp etc…on this drive? I’m just a user not a techie type person.
#Sandisk 256gb flash drive life cycle pro
Since this drive is marketed/advertised on SanDisk’s own website as a “SANDISK EXTREME PRO USB 3.1 SOLID STATE FLASH DRIVE” it should mention somewhere even if its in small print that SMART reports should not be taken into account when checking the overall health of this SSD/USB Flash Drive etc… or something to that effect. But if that is the case it should be made aware in some sense as I have always relied on SMART to give ma a “better than nothing” type of SSD health report or status check on my SSDs overall health. I’m semi-ok with this response as I understand that this model drive is basically a SSD inside a flash drive form factor and as a result SMART is not reliable. Bottom Line is SanDisk is basically saying to Ignore SMART errors that may be reported about this drive. I wanted to share SanDisk’s response to my official ticket I opened up on the subject. I am all for sharing information, for in the chance someone else has similar inquiries. I have been a long time fan and supporter of sandisk drives both internal and external, im hoping that I have nothing to worry about or that sandisk will fix it.
at first glance it made me not want this drive but the drive is too **bleep** fast to just pass on a false positive. im guessing that at some point the next version of this drive/line will employ the proper ability to read smart correctly of at least not give false alarming details. My guess is that since its a SSD inside of a USB Flash drive form factor using USB 3.1 interface which kind of new that SMART is just not 100% accurate (yet).
One thing I did notice about the replacement drive vs the 1st drive I got was the second drive activity light is nowhere near as bright (maybe that was adding unneeded heat to other drive?) Overall the drive seems to work just fine. I do expect the drive to get a little warm or even hot while I am dumping 75GB+ of data onto it as long as it cools down when its done. The drive does cool down after its done read/writing so that is a good thing but the temp in SMART reading never changes.
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