The techreport's SSD endurance series covers which SMART attributes are relevant to which manufacturers [1]. When we were getting ready to move some production

The techreport's SSD endurance series covers which SMART attributes are relevant to which manufacturers [1]. When we were getting ready to move some production systems over to SSDs we took one drive and wrote random data to it until it died. After every complete write cycle we collected the SMART attributes so we would know what a dying drive looked like. [1]: http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experim...