SSD power on/power cycles count. Does it matter?

When I ran Disk Genius and do a SMART scan, it shows a number for how many times the SSD or the computer was powered on. But is that an important number? Does the number of times it's powered on and off affect the life of the drive? My number is currently 588. I got this SSD earlier this year, and I sleep and wake my laptop to use it maybe 5 times each day. I was just wondering if turning it on/off so many times affects the SSD's life expectancy.

Not in the least. There are some who believe that the sudden in-rush of current can affect the life of components, kind of like how you will notice that the old style filament light bulbs almost always die when power is first turned on, but for solid state devices this is pretty much a non-issue. Mechanical devices like disks that spin up and down are more prone to this type of issue, but even there this effect is minimal.

I wouldn't even give it a single thought. You are far more likely to replace the SSD due to age, changes in technology, etc. than to ever have to worry about this.

No need to worry about the minutiae of SSDs.

On/Off power cycles are just one of many factors affecting life expectancy.

SMART just monitors some factors, those that are easy to record. It tries to an extent to predict Drive failures but it's known not to be overly good at that.

hsehestedt said:

Not in the least. There are some who believe that the sudden in-rush of current can affect the life of components, kind of like how you will notice that the old style filament light bulbs almost always die when power is first turned on, but for solid state devices this is pretty much a non-issue. Mechanical devices like disks that spin up and down are more prone to this type of issue, but even there this effect is minimal.

I wouldn't even give it a single thought. You are far more likely to replace the SSD due to age, changes in technology, etc. than to ever have to worry about this.

Ok. I thought maybe Disk Genius included that figure in its top area because they thought it was a big factor in determining SSD life.