WD SN730 NVMe SSD showing low life remaining after only 16 months in Dell G5 5500

JamesUK · 24 Jun 2022 at 21:41

Hi, I have a DELL G5 5500 which has a 1TB Western Digital SN730 NVMe SSD drive, I have had it 16 months. I don't usually pay that much attention to the western digital dashboard app which i have installed, I ran it before and to my horror there is a bit that shows life remaining.

Mine shows as 58% life remaining, so a little over half, but if that is actually correct and i have had my laptop 16 months now, does that mean i am likely to only have the drive functioning correctly for around another 16 months or a little over?

I thought drives were supposed to last a good while?

Or might this prediction be totally inaccurate?

Regards
James

On Holiday · 24 Jun 2022 at 21:42

Install CrystalDiskInfo and send over the screenshot

JamesUK · 24 Jun 2022 at 23:03

Hi Mate, the result is:

tamzzy · 24 Jun 2022 at 23:07

something is eating your ssd writes!
130TB of writes! lol looks like someone mining chia

On Holiday · 24 Jun 2022 at 23:08

I wouldn't worry much about the "%" there but it's written 130TB which seems a fair amount in 16 months! Do you use Shadowplay or anything like that, that might be writing constantly?

The SSD is only rated for 400TB Written endurance which is part of what the % Health is based off.

Cyber-Mav · 25 Jun 2022 at 19:31

as above 130tb writes is your answer.

Donnie Fisher · 17 Jul 2022 at 19:49

Some of these may help point to where the data is coming from :

Disk Activity Monitor Indicator for Windows 10

The hard drive on your laptop or desktop is usually fairly active. Windows reads and writes to the hard disk even when no notable software is open on your taskbar. Background system processes also generate disk activity. Excessive hard drive activity can slow your system down and drain laptop...

windowsreport.com

Hmmm that auto link text isn’t reflective of what the content is on the page which is a reasonable quick summary of some apps (some included with windows itself) that can help

opethian · 17 Jul 2022 at 22:17

On Holiday said:
I wouldn't worry much about the "%" there but it's written 130TB which seems a fair amount in 16 months! Do you use Shadowplay or anything like that, that might be writing constantly?

The SSD is only rated for 400TB Written endurance which is part of what the % Health is based off.

I doubt Shadowplay would do this even at high bitrate... very interested to find out what's causing this.

Thanks for the tip on CrystalDiskInfo --- I can see that my SSDs are healthy.