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smartctl Wear_Leveling_Count

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I have a Samsung SSD on my laptop, I was noticing that the Wear_Leveling_Count in smartctl is reporting as 6. What does that mean, does that mean that on the average a cell in the SSD has write cycled 6 times? (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 01/19/2013 – Made popular on 01/19/2013

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