How Much Longer Will Your SSD Last? How to Tell

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My old segate hdd 500gb is still working after 10 yrs. Recently i have installed wd sn570 nvme 500gb i hope it also last as long.

I remember that graph. The Intel SSD had a "feature" that would basically kill itself as soon as it detected just one bad sector! Its a bit like stubbing your tow and then giving up on life and blowing your brains out. Nice one intel - I wonder how many people got caught out by that!

I know that i am 2 year off the release of the video but i cannot find the information anywhere.

I have a laptop and my ssd has health of 92% but when playing demanding games it reaches 66 degrees celcius, the operating temp are max 70.
Should i be worried ? or as long as i am in the range it should be operating fine ?

In truth Hard Drives will always be better than SSDs as Hard Drives don't fail as easily

Yeah i got as main driver with windows the viper Viper M.2 VPN100 : 1024.2 GB good drive quite fast perfect for system there are no games on this drive just system and some pictures and maybe music plus some programs, the tolal space is like 1tb and i so far used 360gb from it and have disc like 2 years now problem is that drive works fine but after i instaled crystal disc info i was chocked the drive lefe spem is at 0 and total host reads is 2437394 GB and total host writes is 2857813 GB at this point this spoose the shit out of me cuz if im correct this is way before its life spem, so i ordered at like 2am right awáy new ssd drive gen 4 and now waiting for its delivery i just hope its gonna come in time. After come to me i start clonning system faster than spped of light cuz idont want to lost my shit. i even back up all stuff just in case plus make bootable USB for windows just in case i lost drive. But what is your consern mate, dit im worrying to mutch or the drive is on the edge of collapse. Also this drive have 800tbw.

me thinks that bad/ corrupt sectors are introduced by company,... computer/ update patches,... in the name of hardware scans,.. later on i found more bad sectors,.. which were previously not there,..before,... suddenly our ,RAM, HDD, BATTERY,.. etc starts dying after free scans by lenovo,. hp,... etc,.. immediately after warranty,... our refusal of their company extended warranty

thanks for your info

3 years in and my laptop ssd is at 91% is it good or bad? I hardly game but i do open a lot of chrome tab😂

What about hdd

I don't know who coined the abbreviation TBW, and there doesn't seem to be a consensus in what it sands for. I've seen both "Total Bytes Written" and "Terabytes Written".

IMO, "Total Bytes Written" makes more sense, as some datasheets will say things like TBW: 600TB, meaning the Total Bytes Written is 600 Terabytes. Enterprise grade SSDs will say things like TBW: 8.4PB, meaning the Total Bytes Written is 8.4 Petabytes, or 8400 Terabytes.

88% after 3 years, good?

so hdds never dies?

some guys tested my old ssd samsung 850 evo 250g and it died at 0.9 Pb - the pro died at 2.5 Pb

After some asking ChatGPT cause Crystaldisk for some reason shows me having written 300TB on the 240gb ssd with a tbw of 84. Chatgpt says my drive only actually written 1~ TB over 1 year of runtime. Idk why this happens, but GPT formula is 263,836 x 4KB/LBAs / 1024 / 1024 / 1204.

HHD have higher reliability. Solid state drives have faster speeds, but the numbers are getting closer

thats why i buy hdd for storage.

Great video! My only complaint (not about your channel) is that the Crystalmark website is a confusing and suspicious-looking download site with few clear instructions on how to get this specific software. I'll pass.

But if that ssd drive dies sothat i no longer could write data to it,i should still able to read data from it right?
Also what does power on ground means?

I just bought 2 Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSDs for my new gaming laptop. I have C drive for my games and programs and D drive for only movies and music. The warranty says 5 years or 2400TBW ........I'm good for a longtime lol

cyrstlemark download looks dodgy, not even attempting

May I ask why they have a "Shizuku Edition" and a "Kurei Kei Edition"?

I tried looking into the CrystalMark software but the download page was too confusing. When I clicked Download it kept sending me to the download page for the system checker rather than the SSD checker. Also it only lists XP and Vista editions of its software. All that considered, I didn't bother.

I still use a 600GB WD Velociraptor as a backup to my SSD and my NVME SSD,
I know the drive is close to death. But this thing is definitely a beast. Almost 15 years, and only until recently it has started showing Caution Signs. WD definitely made the Velociraptors into truly some of the most resistant regular hard drives ever.
Luckily i have backups for it.
I really wanna see it go until the end, this Hard Drive has travelled with me through all my upgrades.

Install HD sentinel and you done

watching this video after my crystal disk info is showing 90% health for my 1year old Crucial P3 1TB PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD

"SSDs have higher reliability in general than harddrives..."
Wut? As long as you handle the harddrives reasonably carefully, and don't have any IBM "DeathStar" disks, the opposite is true. As demonstrated by the very topic of this video, for one. While the typical HDD enjoyer can't even fathom how a "GB/s" number can be real without a decimal point in front of it, it laughs in the face of ludicrous things like "TBW".

Is Crystal Disk Info available on linux?

I use two or three gigabit memorysticks ready

DO NOT DOWN LOAD THE CRYSTALDISKINF APP. FROM THE PC APP STORE. I did and now I have a Mcaffee popup that I can't get rid of.

TLC has acquired a bad reputation in the past. Nothing fundamentally wrong but but it just doesn't last as long as SLC or MLC. So Samsung calls their TLC drives 3-bit MLC. Not sure if others are doing the same but keep this in mind when reading spec sheets. That said, my own Samsung 850 Pro (MLC) which is being used extremly hard for like 10 years is holding up very well and similar for a far less used but even older Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 80GB MLC SSD. So clearly the fear of burning through a drive's "write life" is irrational for most uses and modern TLC probably lives as long as MLC of these eh.. classic SSD drives.

My s 70 blade 2tb died after 4 months of use 😢

SSD not showing after a scan and repair on Call of duty

So this has never happened to me before and my PC is a year old... I was playing a game of COD and so my game freezes.. goes into a scan and repair then after I go into battle net to play again but the game is asking for an update. as soon as i press update it goes straight into and error so I thought hmmmm... so I restarted PC. PC finished restarting and I log onto battle net once again but now its asking me to install the game but how could that be when the game was just downloading and working a few minutes ago? So I press install and looks like my install cant find my G drive (where I store all of my games) and so I was confused. I go into File Explorer and my G drive/SSD isnt there. I tried looking online for any fixes and I went into my disk manager and it isnt popping up... I also rescanned for disks and nothing.


I hope that I am not fucked here and there is a fix. tried speaking to some friends and they also dont have any solutions to this. Hopefully nothing is fried and its an easy fix and we are good to go.


PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 7700X

Motherboard PRO B650-P WIFI MS-7D78

Nvidia RTX 3080

2 1TB SSD (one is the one we cant find)

im sitting on 37.2 TB total host writes - should i be worried drive is SSD Western Digital Green ~ health says 51% good ~ but sentinel pro says 189 days remaining life. so abit concerned. Should i be ordering a new one soon. ( I just found the SPEC Sheet with a rating of TBW 80 )

im using crystal disk info and my ssd is 99%(good) but disk usage sometimes goes 100% without doing any tasks and quite annoying me for gaming… please help

You should not be worried about to write (use) your ssd to much, the lifespan or write limit is very high. Ssd's are very durable.

Thank you very much for the video

as an m2 macbook air user my ssd has probably been on the brink of death since the day i got it 💀apple needs to stop selling 8 gb ram computers and trying to make up for it by making the mac eat your ssd for more swapped ram

My first-ever SSD was a Samsung 850 EVO that I got back in Christmas 2014 as a gift to upgrade my laptop. Never before had I seen boot speeds so fast! I still have the drive and it still works great. Not using it as my main drive anymore, but for transferring/storing large files portably, it's very useful.

Thank you very much for the educational video, very informative.

Write Cycle Durability is an estimate. There are people more than tripling the estimate and still getting full usage out of their SSDs. Essentially, the "limitation" is less an accurate portrayal of health and more an estimate to help companies draw up warranties and encourage fresh sales.

My art teacher said, "if ur work isnt backed up in three different places, then it doesnt exist"

THX

I noticed that the Power On Hours for your drive is 31,650 which translates to about 3.5 years. Yet you mentioned your drive is actually about 7 years old. Why doesn't the PoH number match the actual installed/in use time?

What about sata ssd

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Correction: The 970 Evo Plus actually used TLC, but that just proves my point even more about improved technology.