SSD Life
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Yes. Not only they are very difficult to recover, pretty much impossible at consumer grade level at any reasonable costs, but they can fail without any warning.
Mechanical HDDs have their faults, but they will usually give plenty of signals before total failure and are recoverable. I use mechanical drives for backup.
I've had sudden hard drive failure before, and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a head crash. I don't know the exact cause, but all of a sudden it locked up and I just powered it down (which I had done before) and it never recovered from the crash. I wouldn't boot and I couldn't read much when I tried to read it in a USB enclosure. And then when I reformatted it, it would keep on locking up.
But the key is to have a backup - or multiple backups. Always assume that there can be a random failure at any time and be prepared for it. The chances of that backup then failing as slim, but obviously try to restore from it ASAP.
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Keep in mind that this CAN cause issues on certain Mac/SSD combos including loss of data. I recommend a full backup before doing this.
Here's the settings I have on my laptop SSD for "optimization" through the "Drive Propertied > Tools" setting, which I think Windows 11 does a "retrim" on the SSD.
What's strange is I have it set to do an "optimization" retrim once a week, but the status shows it's been 29 days since it was done automatically. Not sure how it's automatically kicked off to do it. Doesn't seem to be doing it weekly even thought that's what it's set to do.
Wonder if I should set it to once a month instead. Is dong a retrim once a week (if it does it as set) too much on the SSD and causing more write cycles?
What's strange is I have it set to do an "optimization" retrim once a week, but the status shows it's been 29 days since it was done automatically. Not sure how it's automatically kicked off to do it. Doesn't seem to be doing it weekly even thought that's what it's set to do.
Wonder if I should set it to once a month instead. Is dong a retrim once a week (if it does it as set) too much on the SSD and causing more write cycles?
SSD life is really of no concern IMO. Failures can happen and do happen, but thatās not the norm.
My old PC was 6-7 years old when I got rid of it. It had a Kingston SSD from day one. I had win7 on it, dual boot of windows 8. Dual boot of Ubuntu at one point. Then I moved to win10. It was formatted and reformatted multitude of times. All sorts of programs and games installed, uninstalled.
In other words, it got worked more than an average user would. I believe it was at either 98% or maybe 96%, after all of that.
There is no need to worry about using these as intended or trying to optimize them somehow. Unless one has some very specific tasks or requirements. For an average user, just plug it in and use it.
My old PC was 6-7 years old when I got rid of it. It had a Kingston SSD from day one. I had win7 on it, dual boot of windows 8. Dual boot of Ubuntu at one point. Then I moved to win10. It was formatted and reformatted multitude of times. All sorts of programs and games installed, uninstalled.
In other words, it got worked more than an average user would. I believe it was at either 98% or maybe 96%, after all of that.
There is no need to worry about using these as intended or trying to optimize them somehow. Unless one has some very specific tasks or requirements. For an average user, just plug it in and use it.
I'm using "Crystal Disk Info" to monitor the 512GB SSD in my Dell laptop. The laptop is ~3 years old now, and the life remaining shows 88%. I haven't installed and removed any programs for over 2 years and just use it to do normal everyday things, mostly heavy internet use.
It seems strange that you could do all that you described on your old PC and the SSD life was still at 96% after 6-7 years. Maybe different SSD monitoring software reports things differently? Is there a better SSD monitoring software beside Crystal Disk Info?
So my Dell SSD shows 88% remaining life after 19,725 GB of writes and 16,151 GB of reads. Does this look like that would equate to 88% life remaining? Reference post #1 for what it was at ~3 years ago.
That would be SSDI, not SSD.I thought, for sure, you were talking about Social Security Disability AKA SSD in the title of this thread. I feel like I'm at the wrong place at the wrong time.
I use Crystal Disk info too, but I used various other such programs and they all report the same thing. That's because it is the onboard drive controller that stores this data, so in your case the difference is due to the manufacturer and how they decide to count the life percentage.
It could also be a case of Dell using the cheapest SSD they could find and the life expectancy of that drive is simply shorter than the name brand drives.
Looks like that's a Lite-On drive but can't find any specs on TBW....generally though, 512gb SSD's are usually around 250-400 TBW for lifespan.
In the SSD beginnings i bought some Adata. It had short life. 
SLC didn't help much...
SLC didn't help much...Is there anything always going on in the back ground in Win11 that would be writing data, or lots od SSD writing if tons of browsing tabs are opened in Firefox?
What about watching lots of YouTube? Is the SSD getting a workout that reduces the remaining life percentage?
What can eat into SSD life remaining % if someone isn't saving tons of files and writing to the drive much?
What about watching lots of YouTube? Is the SSD getting a workout that reduces the remaining life percentage?
What can eat into SSD life remaining % if someone isn't saving tons of files and writing to the drive much?
Anything like copying files, backing up, etc.
For comparison, my 970 Evo Plus 1TB drive that I've had for 2 years now as my main W11 OS drive: 16.9TB written and CrystalDiskInfo is showing 100% Good.
My 512GB SSD is at 88% (Crystal Disk) with 19TB written (ref post 27) in ~3 years. Seems like the life remaining % should be higher if with 19TB written.
My 512GB SSD is at 88% (Crystal Disk) with 19TB written (ref post 27) in ~3 years. Seems like the life remaining % should be higher if with 19TB written.
The endurance probably isn't the best on that drive, due to it being low-tier - it's probably something like 150TBW, which would roughly make sense with the 88% with 19TB written. Whereas, my Samsung 970 Evo Plus has an endurance of 600TBW for the 1TB drive.
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My 512GB SSD is at 92% with 125.8TB writtenMy 512GB SSD is at 88% (Crystal Disk) with 19TB written (ref post 27) in ~3 years. Seems like the life remaining % should be higher if with 19TB written.
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I have a WD in my Mac (the original hard drive) that has a warning for age, lol. But is otherwise healthy. It has 97,921 hours on it.I've got 72K+ hours on an SSD in one of my Linux machines...
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Dang, my SSD must be low tier hardware. Thought Dell would use something better.My 512GB SSD is at 92% with 125.8TB written
Can anyone recommend a different SSD health monitoring program, a free download one for Windows 11? I'd try another good program to just see how it compares to Crystal Disk on my machine.
Read the datasheet , tbw. A guy once complained about SSD not lasting enough, but he already consumed the tbw in few months.
Consumer SSD have 0.1 dwpd, server 3...6+ dwpd.
https://wintelguy.com/dwpd-tbw-gbday-calc.pl
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/dwpd
There's 2 types of people, one that backup, and one that will.
Consumer SSD have 0.1 dwpd, server 3...6+ dwpd.
https://wintelguy.com/dwpd-tbw-gbday-calc.pl
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/dwpd
There's 2 types of people, one that backup, and one that will.
