Question Crucial P5 Plus 500GB Health at 69% after 2 years.

[Streetkilln]

hello i have a Crucial P5 Plus 500GB and a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB. my 500gb ssd is my windows drive, the health of the drive is already at 69% after 2 years mean while my other 2tb drive is still at 99.

i have a screenshot from crystaldiskinfo but im not sure what to look for.

 

[helpstar]

well, the TBW value of this SSD is 300TB. You have already written about one tird of this (107,28TB)
https://embeddedcomputing.com/techn...ming/an-introduction-to-tbw-terabytes-written

 

[Rokinamerica]

^^^ This.

 

[Streetkilln]

well, the TBW value of this SSD is 300TB. You have already written about one tird of this (107,28TB)
https://embeddedcomputing.com/techn...ming/an-introduction-to-tbw-terabytes-written

Thanks for that information. I guess id have to find a ssd with higher TBW although this should still last me a few more years im just worried about performance.

 

[worstalentscout]

hello i have a Crucial P5 Plus 500GB and a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB. my 500gb ssd is my windows drive, the health of the drive is already at 69% after 2 years mean while my other 2tb drive is still at 99.

i have a screenshot from crystaldiskinfo but im not sure what to look for.

isn't that fantastic endurance ?

i have the 250GB MX500 as a boot drive for 2.5 years............18,784GB host writes and down to 72% life.......

 

[Lafong]

You say 2 years old.

16552 hours equates to about 99 weeks of 24/7 operation. So I guess the PC is on virtually non-stop.

Writing about 1 TB per week.

I'd guess that is more than 99% of users. I write 5 or 6 TB a year. I'd guess average is in the 8 to 20 range?

That write rate may be easily explained. Maybe not. Regardless, I doubt I'd get a new drive just to get a higher TBW. Any drive can quit at any time or run far beyond the TBW point. Suit yourself of course. TBW can be a factor in a warranty claim, but otherwise not sure I'd be very excited about it. Your warranty likely isn't more than 3 years?

 

[Bob.B]

hello i have a Crucial P5 Plus 500GB and a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB. my 500gb ssd is my windows drive, the health of the drive is already at 69% after 2 years mean while my other 2tb drive is still at 99.

i have a screenshot from crystaldiskinfo but im not sure what to look for.

We all run our machines different so there is no normal.

You show about 6.5GB/hour written to the ssd.
I show less than 1GB/hour written to my ssd.

Perhaps an area to snoop in.

 

[Streetkilln]

You say 2 years old.

16552 hours equates to about 99 weeks of 24/7 operation. So I guess the PC is on virtually non-stop.

Writing about 1 TB per week.

I'd guess that is more than 99% of users. I write 5 or 6 TB a year. I'd guess average is in the 8 to 20 range?

That write rate may be easily explained. Maybe not. Regardless, I doubt I'd get a new drive just to get a higher TBW. Any drive can quit at any time or run far beyond the TBW point. Suit yourself of course. TBW can be a factor in a warranty claim, but otherwise not sure I'd be very excited about it. Your warranty likely isn't more than 3 years?

i honestly do leave my pc on and never really shut it off other than hibernate or sleep mode.

 

[USAFRet]

As one of the above commenters, your GB per hour is a bit much.

My 1TB 980 Pro has 19,292 running hours, and 33.1TB written.

Approx 1.7GB per hour, vs your 6.5GB per hour.

(and I leave my system on all the time as well.

 

[Viking2121]

Also note that 69% doesn't mean its actually at 69%, thats just a number that was programed life expectancy of the SSD, it could go beyond what was programed, Though that doesn't mean to not have a backup plan, always have a back up!

 

[rcald2000]

Streetkilln​

Off-subject: You might consider downloading and running Crutial's SSD Toolbox "Storage Executive", so that you can update the firmware of both drives.

https://www.crucial.com/support/storage-executive