Config of current system:
Ryzen 5 1600
asus ex-a320m
2x8gb RAM (Gskill + KLEVV dual channel /XMP2.0/3000Mhz)
GTX 1070
2TB HDD
240gb WD green - OS drive
1TB and 128 GB ssd
WD green 240gb has 48gb occupied, 150gb free, of 199 gb (24gb unallocated)
So I bought a WD green 240gb ssd in July of 2023 to use as my OS drive in my desktop. I had been checking crystaldiskinfo now and then to keep track of its life and have noticed that its been wearing out a bit too fast for comfort. A couple of days back I thought I would try to track the wear. These are the findings:
(WD Dashboard also shows 79% health)
Things that might have contributed to excessive writes (not sure);
1)Have been transcoding a large amount of .ts video files to .mp4 (transcoded mp4 files are around a total of 500gb now, so total file size of .ts files were probably around 1 to 1.5tb). I did not do any transcoding today (22jan2024). No transcodin was done on the OS drive, Both the .ts files and .mp4 were on different drives (initially on a 2tb hdd(5 year old), which started showing errors (on crystaldiskinfo only, 328 reallocated sectors as of now), so since the past couple of months, source and transcoded files have been kept on a separate cheap 128gb ssd(533gb total NAND write/586gb host writes/100%health)
2) UPS battery is bust (lasts 5s max) so there have been abrupt power losses about a couple of times per month (~5 times). Health seems to reduce by 1% with each 1 or 2 power loss, not sure maybe its just coincidence
3)Hibernation has been on, (since the beginning), turned off today (22jan2024)(hiberfile.sys was around 7gb and was on the offending drive). Used to make use of hibernation and sleep regularly, preferring it over shutdown.
4)Pagefile was on since beginning, on C: (system managed size)
Things I've done to try and remediate the issue,
1) Moved pagefile to a different 128gb ssd ( one or two days back)
2)Turned off hibernate and indexing on the os drive, today morning around 02:00 AM
3) Created ramdisk today morning ~02 AM, of size 3gb, dynamically allocated, with Imdisk, moved temp folder to it (currently around ~30mb occupied with only tempfiles of avast)
Despite doing all of this, total NAND writes keep increasing at around 1gb per minute even when idling (crystaldiskinfo active) and as of now (16:06pm. 22 jan) it sits at around: 60590 total NAND writes. Is this normal?
One discrepancy I've noted, power on hours of WD green 240gb bought in july is less than power on hours of 1tb MX500 bought in august (Wdgreen- 975 Hrs, 1tb MX500 is 1308hrs), That is, the drive bought around 1 month earlier has around 330 hrs less power on hours.
(Unrelated but I also have an MX500 240gb used as an OS drive in a laptop used regularly (no gaming,no transcoding, but hibernation regularly used) for 1+ year (bought mid 2022) and it is at 94% health now
Things left to try:
-Reinstall windows
-(??)Try removing one of the ram modules as they're from different manufacturers running in dual channel/xmp 2.0 ( gives occasional memory errors - "attempted write to read only memory")
-(??) Uninstall avast?
-Upgrade SSD firmware
-try using the 128gb as os drive and see if its NAND writes go up at 1gb/minute ?
-Claim warranty?
-get a better ssd?
Does anyone have any other suggestions??
Oh and a couple more issues with the WDGreen drive, Hibernation and sleeping is really slow on it. Hibernation take more than a minute i think. I think its even slower than when the OS was running off the 2tb HDD. However once the OS has started up its way more responsive than when running on hdd (
My decade old laptop (i3 2nd gen) with mx500 240gb has near instant sleep and wake up, and hibernation and wake up from hibernation takes only around 30 sec or less (each)
Ryzen 5 1600
asus ex-a320m
2x8gb RAM (Gskill + KLEVV dual channel /XMP2.0/3000Mhz)
GTX 1070
2TB HDD
240gb WD green - OS drive
1TB and 128 GB ssd
WD green 240gb has 48gb occupied, 150gb free, of 199 gb (24gb unallocated)
So I bought a WD green 240gb ssd in July of 2023 to use as my OS drive in my desktop. I had been checking crystaldiskinfo now and then to keep track of its life and have noticed that its been wearing out a bit too fast for comfort. A couple of days back I thought I would try to track the wear. These are the findings:
| DATE | Life remaining | Total NAND writes | Total Host writes | Total host reads | |
| 15 jan 2024 | 81% | 56068 GB | 3117 GB | 3313 GB | |
| 22 jan 00:32 AM | 79% | 60235 | 3230 | 3412 | |
| 22 jan 02:17 AM | 79% | 60349 | 3232 | 3414 | |
| 22jan 03:16 AM | 79% | 60382 | 3238 | 3418 | |
| 79% | 60385 | 3239 | 3418 | |
| " 03:58 am | 79% | 60410 | 3241 | 3421 | |
| " 14:33pm | 79% | 60527 | |||
| " 15:14pm | 79% | 60533 | 3242 | 3426 | |
(WD Dashboard also shows 79% health)
Things that might have contributed to excessive writes (not sure);
1)Have been transcoding a large amount of .ts video files to .mp4 (transcoded mp4 files are around a total of 500gb now, so total file size of .ts files were probably around 1 to 1.5tb). I did not do any transcoding today (22jan2024). No transcodin was done on the OS drive, Both the .ts files and .mp4 were on different drives (initially on a 2tb hdd(5 year old), which started showing errors (on crystaldiskinfo only, 328 reallocated sectors as of now), so since the past couple of months, source and transcoded files have been kept on a separate cheap 128gb ssd(533gb total NAND write/586gb host writes/100%health)
2) UPS battery is bust (lasts 5s max) so there have been abrupt power losses about a couple of times per month (~5 times). Health seems to reduce by 1% with each 1 or 2 power loss, not sure maybe its just coincidence
3)Hibernation has been on, (since the beginning), turned off today (22jan2024)(hiberfile.sys was around 7gb and was on the offending drive). Used to make use of hibernation and sleep regularly, preferring it over shutdown.
4)Pagefile was on since beginning, on C: (system managed size)
Things I've done to try and remediate the issue,
1) Moved pagefile to a different 128gb ssd ( one or two days back)
2)Turned off hibernate and indexing on the os drive, today morning around 02:00 AM
3) Created ramdisk today morning ~02 AM, of size 3gb, dynamically allocated, with Imdisk, moved temp folder to it (currently around ~30mb occupied with only tempfiles of avast)
Despite doing all of this, total NAND writes keep increasing at around 1gb per minute even when idling (crystaldiskinfo active) and as of now (16:06pm. 22 jan) it sits at around: 60590 total NAND writes. Is this normal?
One discrepancy I've noted, power on hours of WD green 240gb bought in july is less than power on hours of 1tb MX500 bought in august (Wdgreen- 975 Hrs, 1tb MX500 is 1308hrs), That is, the drive bought around 1 month earlier has around 330 hrs less power on hours.
(Unrelated but I also have an MX500 240gb used as an OS drive in a laptop used regularly (no gaming,no transcoding, but hibernation regularly used) for 1+ year (bought mid 2022) and it is at 94% health now
Things left to try:
-Reinstall windows
-(??)Try removing one of the ram modules as they're from different manufacturers running in dual channel/xmp 2.0 ( gives occasional memory errors - "attempted write to read only memory")
-(??) Uninstall avast?
-Upgrade SSD firmware
-try using the 128gb as os drive and see if its NAND writes go up at 1gb/minute ?
-Claim warranty?
-get a better ssd?
Does anyone have any other suggestions??
Oh and a couple more issues with the WDGreen drive, Hibernation and sleeping is really slow on it. Hibernation take more than a minute i think. I think its even slower than when the OS was running off the 2tb HDD. However once the OS has started up its way more responsive than when running on hdd (
My decade old laptop (i3 2nd gen) with mx500 240gb has near instant sleep and wake up, and hibernation and wake up from hibernation takes only around 30 sec or less (each)
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