SSD drive health

hornetstinger · 5 May 2025 at 13:08

When would you replace a NVME, with crystaldiscinfo drive health percentage? Mines still in the 70%

At ~20% do you start getting errors, BSOD or around ~10%? Or even lower than that ie 5%

tamzzy · 5 May 2025 at 13:14

doesn't work like that, drive health just shows the % of the nand re-write capacity based on the expected number of P/E cycles

nlel1975 · 5 May 2025 at 15:26

I've got my old Corsair Force MP510 1.92TB in an external NVMe enclosure connected to my new Mac mini. I bought it in July 2019 and it spent its early life as the main drive in my PC. I've run some drive diagnostic software and it shows 7170 power on hours, 26.8 TB units written and 99% life percentage remaining.

Tetras · 7 May 2025 at 15:36

When you start getting errors reported and reserved blocks being used in the SMART data that's a bigger worry than the % used. I'm always less bothered about wear on a storage drive than a boot drive.

Philtor · 7 May 2025 at 18:28

Is that program SSD Life not still a thing on the forum these days or are we all using CrystalDiskInfo now?

I remember using it back in the day to check my drive health but doesn’t provide anywhere near as much drive info tbf.

darael · 8 May 2025 at 00:29

Philtor said:
Is that program SSD Life not still a thing on the forum these days or are we all using CrystalDiskInfo now?

I remember using it back in the day to check my drive health but doesn’t provide anywhere near as much drive info tbf.

I haven't used SSD Life for a very long time, mostly because, as you've discovered yourself, it's not much good these days.

CrystalDiskInfo is probably the most popular these days. To be honest, I'd struggle to recommend another.

Philtor · 8 May 2025 at 01:04

darael said:
I haven't used SSD Life for a very long time, mostly because, as you've discovered yourself, it's not much good these days.

CrystalDiskInfo is probably the most popular these days. To be honest, I'd struggle to recommend another.

Yeah it was a bit of a gimmick I guess

bimbleuk · 8 May 2025 at 07:02

SSDs tend to either stop working or will give a warning at 0% and may stop writing data.

Mcnumpty2323 · 8 May 2025 at 11:16

I would replace mine
When it stops working lol
Never actually had a solid state drive
Fail on me so far (touch wood)
Still using a Samsung sm951 from think
It was 2015 or so

Main thing to consider for me
Would be what's on it?
And is it important and is it
Backed up?
Everything i have has multiple backups
Even backups of backups
So I never put myself in the position where
A drive failing would be any sort of worry

Should say only have solid state drives
So restoring stuff is pretty quick

marinersfan · 8 May 2025 at 11:21

I had a brand new Samsung m.2 fail recently.
My old sata Samsung 840 is still trucking at nearly 15000 hours.

dave28 · 8 May 2025 at 11:25

the % health is not reliable indicator of the real health of an SSD, i would ignore that and carry on using it.

I have been lucky and never had an SSD fail so I dont even worry about what the % says.

Zeebedy · 8 May 2025 at 19:15

I had a newish Crucial give up on me.. was playing CS2 and in Discord and BOOM! PC just shut off and the NVMe was the culprit.

Cyber-Mav · 10 May 2025 at 05:24

darael said:
I haven't used SSD Life for a very long time, mostly because, as you've discovered yourself, it's not much good these days.

CrystalDiskInfo is probably the most popular these days. To be honest, I'd struggle to recommend another.

Hdsentinel is better it picks up sas drives smart data too where CDi doesn't.

OspreyO · 10 May 2025 at 12:57

Almost all of my SSD even the oldest boot drives still going strong. Performance has always been inconsistent, for various reasons.

The one I've had issues with is my SanDisk 500GB external. Which is usually encrypted. It started to occasionally corrupt so I stopped using it. It now writing slow and failing. But passes all drive tests. I know there's known issues with those drives, though not this model. Had a USB Flash drive behave similar.