My NVME SSD "Percentage Used:" has hit 224%. What's the highest you've got? Show me your abused SSDs.

So I've got this 250GB Samsung 960 EVO NVME SSD in a computer doing some SNMP performance monitoring where it writes to RRD files every one minute. For those of you not in the know, this is just performance monitoring metrics like disk/network/CPU utilization which is then used to draw graphs.

The system is constantly writing data. I'm abusing the hell out of this consumer-grade drive.

It's notable that the available spare erase blocks is still at 100%, so unless there's something else to wear out (the controller), there's not actually anything "worn out" about the drive at all. It's just that we've exceeded Samsung's warranty claim thresholds by 124%.

So I'm wondering who among you has a more abused SSD? Show us your numbers. Dump your smartctl output like below:

>sudo smartctl -a /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_250GB_S3ESNXXXXXXXXXX
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-2-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB
Serial Number: S3ESNXXXXXXXXXX
Firmware Version: 2B7QCXE7
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x144d
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x002538
Total NVM Capacity: 250,059,350,016 [250 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity: 0
Controller ID: 2
Number of Namespaces: 1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 250,059,350,016 [250 GB]
Namespace 1 Utilization: 201,662,365,696 [201 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64: 002538 5671b02d7f
Local Time is: Fri Jan 17 03:53:32 2020 MST
Firmware Updates (0x16): 3 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0007): Security Format Frmw_DL
Optional NVM Commands (0x001f): Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat
Maximum Data Transfer Size: 512 Pages
Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 77 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 79 Celsius

Supported Power States
St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat
0 + 6.04W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 + 5.09W - - 1 1 1 1 0 0
2 + 4.08W - - 2 2 2 2 0 0
3 - 0.0400W - - 3 3 3 3 210 1500
4 - 0.0050W - - 4 4 4 4 2200 6000

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf
0 + 512 0 0

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
- NVM subsystem reliability has been degraded

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0x1)
Critical Warning: 0x04
Temperature: 28 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 224%
Data Units Read: 94,629,990 [48.4 TB]
Data Units Written: 295,744,767 [151 TB]
Host Read Commands: 6,151,823,255
Host Write Commands: 12,759,251,580
Controller Busy Time: 30,913
Power Cycles: 28
Power On Hours: 15,274
Unsafe Shutdowns: 21
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 28 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 37 Celsius

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, max 64 entries)
No Errors Logged

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