SSD Upgrade

steve108 · 14 Dec 2020

stuarttunstall said:

I have installed that :) that is how I got the written data at first :)

I have just emailed Crystal Disc to see how the 99% is calculated.. maybe it is a slight false reading due to the amount of data written in a short time and will settle down now (I hope lol)

I imagine Samsung keeps it simple by reporting Good vs X% so they don't get inundated with CS calls.

My Samsung SSD with 3500+ hours/5TB written reports 99% in Crystal, and Samsung Magician just says Good.

stuarttunstall · 14 Dec 2020

I did run Crystal Disc Info on my HDD and it just said GOOD... it is only the SSD which has the % shown, but I suppose it could be 99.99% but reports 99% as there is no decimal point..

If they reply to my email I will let you know :)

steve108 · 14 Dec 2020

stuarttunstall said:

I did run Crystal Disc Info on my HDD and it just said GOOD... it is only the SSD which has the % shown, but I suppose it could be 99.99% but reports 99% as there is no decimal point..

If they reply to my email I will let you know :)

Okay, and just FYI, my HDD too also just says good in Crystal.

sygnus21 · 14 Dec 2020

ignatzatsonic said:

There's perhaps a 1 in 1000 or 10000 chance you should be concerned.

Agree with this a million percent. And in all honesty, you'll probably wind up replacing the drive with something newer or bigger before the read/write wear concerns become a reality. I still use my 120gig OCZ drive I bought in 2010; though I now use it as an external flash drive

BTW all my drives since than have been Samsung (both SATA and NVME) as well as Pro and EVO as seen in my system specs

stuarttunstall · 14 Dec 2020

The normal for me is to use this laptop for about 3 to 3.5 hours each evening and maybe a more over the weekend..

Tonight it shows I have written 10GB since 6PM until now, so with a little more from Friday to Sunday it looks to be well below 100GB each week which sounds better to me :)

sygnus21 · 14 Dec 2020

stuarttunstall said:

The normal for me is to use this laptop for about 3 to 3.5 hours each evening and maybe a more over the weekend..

Tonight it shows I have written 10GB since 6PM until now, so with a little more from Friday to Sunday it looks to be well below 100GB each week which sounds better to me :)

Unless you're writing gigabytes of data 24/7/365 that "might" be an issue, but the use you put forth is a non worry. And BTW I use both my desktop and laptop far more than that and I'm not even concerned about wear level

Yes, you can find some horror stories on the net, just as I can find support for the flat earth theory

Relax and use your PC

NavyLCDR · 14 Dec 2020

The SSD will likely become obsolete before it wears out due to writes.

Steve C · 15 Dec 2020

Don't worry. My Intel 520 installed in 2012 and used daily still shows 100% health.

Megahertz · 15 Dec 2020

Tree huge windows files are updated on every start.
pagefile.sys (Virtual memory)
hiberfil.sys (hibernation file)
swapfile.sys (Virtual memory)

On every boot you will have re written almost twice the size of your memory.

I've have moved pagefile.sys from the C: drive (SSD) to D: (HDD) and disabled hibernation (powercfg -h off). Now only the swapfile.sys remain (260MB) on the SSD.

NavyLCDR · 15 Dec 2020

Megahertz said:

Tree huge windows files are updated on every start.
pagefile.sys (Virtual memory)
hiberfil.sys (hibernation file)
swapfile.sys (Virtual memory)

On every boot you will have re written almost twice the size of your memory.

I've have moved pagefile.sys from the C: drive (SSD) to D: (HDD) and disabled hibernation (powercfg -h off). Now only the swapfile.sys remain (260MB) on the SSD.

That is not true. And the pagefile.sys should be on the fastest drive in the computer, ideally the same drive and partition as the OS, not on the slowest drive. The pagefile.sys is CREATED. All that does is create the entry in the file table for the file reserving space for the file. It does not mean the entire file is written to the drive. Data in the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys is constantly changing, the OS does not write the entire size of the pagefile.sys file at any time, including boot up. It only writes bits of data to the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys.