I have an external OWC Mercury Electra 480GB SSD (that I use for Carbon Copy Cloner backups).

DriveDx v1.8.0 is now warning that the drive’s Retired Block Count is 32 and that the drive’s life-span may be detrimentally affected.

My problem is that I have no understanding and appreciation for what this portends. Is this block count issue normal for a two year old SSD, is the drive likely to have a catastrophic failure or will it gracefully lose capability, and about how much longer can I expect to use it?

I plan to call OWC tech support, but before doing so, I would like to have at least a rudimentary understanding of the issue and what I’m talking about.

All thoughts welcome.

Harv
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