Question How to change old Windows hard disk to new hard disk?

[smalltech]

Hello,

I have SAMSUNG 990 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD for 10 months and the day 1 Health Status is 100%, after 10 months Health Status is 92%. I use CrystalDiskInfo to see the Health Status.

Windows 10 Pro is installed in SAMSUNG 990 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD

Q1. What is the best way to change from SAMSUNG 990 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD to a new WD SN850X 1TB NVME M.2 SSD?

Q2. Would cloning work since the health status % now has already dropped to 92% would the cloning software clone 92% health (or bad health areas/sectors/data) to the new WD SN850X 1TB NVME M.2 SSD?

Q3. My SAMSUNG 990 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD will stop working at what Health Status %?

Q4. At at what Health Status % should I change to a new hard disk?

Q5. Is dropping 8% health status in 10 months too fast? What is the normal rate of % drop in one year?

Q6. I use https://www.hdtune.com/download.html HD Tune 2.55 free version last updated at 12 February 2008 (very long ago), is the Error Scan results still accurate? Are there any alternative software that has the Error Scan function like HD Tune?

Thank you

 

[SkyNetRising]

Q1. What is the best way to change from SAMSUNG 990 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD to a new WD SN850X 1TB NVME M.2 SSD?

Either clone or clean install.

Q2. Would cloning work since the health status % now has already dropped to 92% would the cloning software clone 92% health
(or bad health areas/sectors/data) to the new WD SN850X 1TB NVME M.2 SSD?

Should work.

Q3. My SAMSUNG 990 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD will stop working at what Health Status %?

When all write cycles are exhausted, drive will switch into read only mode.
Should be at 0%. But if some other critical smart parameter is tripped, drive can go into read only mode earlier too.

Q4. At at what Health Status % should I change to a new hard disk?

At 10% or 5%. Anyway - you should have replacement drive already prepared at that time.

Q5. Is dropping 8% health status in 10 months too fast? What is the normal rate of % drop in one year?

That's rather fast health decline. But this depends on write workload, your drive is experiencing.
Normal would be 1% to 2% health decline per year.
Make sure, you have drive firmware updated.

Can you show screenshot from Samsung Magician - Drive Dashboard?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)
You can update drive firmware with Samsung Magician.

 

[USAFRet]

1. That "health' thing is not a worry.

2. Yes.

3. No

4. You should be ready for death at any moment. This is what a good backup routine is for.

If you still wish to investigate cloning, we can go into great detail.

 

[geofelt]

Q1. How full is your C drive?
I see no utility in changing a 1tb drive to a different 1tb drive.
Let samsung magician update the firmware if needed.
If you clone, do it right to a 2tb replacement.

Q2 Clone is a bit for bit copy, magician to a samsung is a logical C drive mover.
In either case, I would not expect any health calculations to be carried over.

Q3. The ssd will keep working, but only for reading when available nand blocks are used up.
You will suffer big performance hits before you run out of writes.

Q4. Be ready to replace with a larger ssd at your convenience when you encounter performance issues due to a nearly full ssd.
Probably about 95% full.

Q5. 8% seems high. Possibly a firmware error if you are not current on firmware.
Let magician check and perhaps update.

Q6. Samsung knows their products better than an all purpose app. Use magician.
If you like HDtune, update the app to currency.