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My Corsair Force 3 120 is currently showing as 511MB free of 111GB, yet there's only 54.9GB of data on it. Is it dying? Or has Win7 screwed up?
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Try getting the S.M.A.R.T data out of it. It could be that it has retired a lot of NAND blocks.
Hmm, Retired block count, Current = 100
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I'd guess that attribute 05 counts down from 100 as blocks are retired, so 100 is probably good.
The 'lost' space could be that the drive isn't partitioned to use the full capacity - can you show a screenshot of the disk management utility? It's odd that 54.9GB + 511MB is almost exactly 50% of the 111GB which I assume is the expected formatted drive capacity.
Alternatively there could be a load of hidden files on the drive?
The 'lost' space could be that the drive isn't partitioned to use the full capacity - can you show a screenshot of the disk management utility? It's odd that 54.9GB + 511MB is almost exactly 50% of the 111GB which I assume is the expected formatted drive capacity.
Alternatively there could be a load of hidden files on the drive?
Went through it all pretty much folder by folder and noticed lots of randomly named folders here there and everywhere. Ran a check in Defraggler and it came up fragged to hell with about a dozen unused sectors. Ran TRIM a few times through ssd toolbox and got back to 12GB free.
With seeing all those junk folders in there I thought why not give ccleaner a go, it's been running almost 5 years without running anything like that. Ran a check with that and cleared out 42GB, lol!
Ran it another couple of times to be sure, last one with "wipe free space" enabled, and voila, windows finally showed what it should, 55.9GB free of 111GB.
So I think it just needed a good clean out in the end, should probably do it more often in future, lol!
With seeing all those junk folders in there I thought why not give ccleaner a go, it's been running almost 5 years without running anything like that. Ran a check with that and cleared out 42GB, lol!
Ran it another couple of times to be sure, last one with "wipe free space" enabled, and voila, windows finally showed what it should, 55.9GB free of 111GB.
So I think it just needed a good clean out in the end, should probably do it more often in future, lol!