Whats the status of your SSD?


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Bought my Kingston SNV425-S2 64GB SSD in September 2010.

January 2011
SSD is 4 months old
Health is 85%
Work time: 2 months
Powered on: 229 times

September 2011
SSD is 12 months old
Health is 62%
Work time: 6 months
Powered on: 578 times
"Your drive health is in good condition and according to current use, estimated T.E.C. date is August 2020."

April 2012
SSD is 1 year, 7 months old
Health is 44%
Work time: 9 months, 19 days
Powered on: 949 times
"Your drive health is in good condition and according to current use, estimated T.E.C. date is January 2021."

August 2012
SSD is 1 year, 11 months old
Health is 33%
Work time: 11 months
Powered on: 1191 times
"Your drive health is in good condition and according to current use, estimated T.E.C. date is May 2021."

November 2012
SSD is 2 years, 2 months old
Health is 25%
Work time: 1 year, 15 days
Powered on: 1313 times
"Your drive health is in good condition and according to current use, estimated T.E.C. date is June 2013."

Update - July 2013
SSD is 2 years, 10 months old
Health is 5%
Work time: 1 year, 4 months
Powered on: 1738 times
"Almost all wear cells are busy, very soon your drive will be read only, so we suggest to replace it immediately."

 

However, CrystalDiskInfo 5.6.2 states "Health Status: Good 100%" and the system seems fine, so I'll choose to ignore SSDlife :)

a little confused, do these drives wear out? (I just bought one)

(I've got hdd's over 15 years old now)

Technically yes. Every flash cell is only rated for a certain amount of writes, but a modern SSD utilizes techniques such as wear-leveling and over-provisioning and will last many years unless you have some sort of highly abnormal constant heavy write workload, you shouldn't worry.

a little confused, do these drives wear out? (I just bought one)

(I've got hdd's over 15 years old now)

 

For normal usage, don't worry yourself. If you're talking enterprise level filer then that's different.

For normal usage, don't worry yourself. If you're talking enterprise level filer then that's different.

Oh ok, thanks. I'm trying to build a new pc but finances only allow a part here, a part there, so for now I was going to see how the one I ordered goes.

Technically yes. Every flash cell is only rated for a certain amount of writes, but a modern SSD utilizes techniques such as wear-leveling and over-provisioning and will last many years unless you have some sort of highly abnormal constant heavy write workload, you shouldn't worry.

It'll only be for OS use and windows updates, everything else will be on my d and e drives, guess I panicked when I saw the expected life figures.

(lol my 40gig quantum fireball's never let me down it's like 15 years old now, still use it in my son's machine)

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