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

 

[USAFRet]

I did not update the firmware. I bought this 990 Pro 10 months ago and used CrystalDiskInfo to see that it has Heath status 100% so I just leave it alone, started using it without Samsung Magician and no firmware update.

10 months later then I discovered CrystalDiskInfo shows 91% today, so I just installed Samsung Magician today.

I usually do not update firmware as I think someone said for firmware (or is it bios or something else) it is better to if it aint broke dont fix it.

I will update it later.

Given that there were 'issues' with some 980 and 990 drives, and a firmware update addresses that...yes, do that.

 

[smalltech]

Given that there were 'issues' with some 980 and 990 drives, and a firmware update addresses that...yes, do that.

I just updated to latest firmware 4B2QJXD7

CrystalDiskInfo still shows Health Status 91%

After I update, I see Samsung Magician Drive Dashboard and CrystalDiskInfo results looks similar to the images I posted (before I update) at #6 https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...-disk-to-new-hard-disk.3866092/#post-23397793

 

[smalltech]

Are these methods 1 or 2 or 3 good for checking hard drive?

"Method 1. Check for and repair bad sectors on hard drives using DiskGenius Free Edition "
"Method 2. Check a hard drive for bad sectors using the Error Checking utility in Windows File Explorer "
"Method 3. Check and repair bad sectors on HDDs using CMD "
source https://www.diskgenius.com/resource/check-fix-bad-sectors-hard-drives.html

 

[Bob.B]

I have posted the screenshot below your question

The screenshot does not show any errors with the disk.

What it does show is your writing over 10GB per hour to the disk.

Perhaps look for what is doing all this writing.

 

[smalltech]

The screenshot does not show any errors with the disk.

What it does show is your writing over 10GB per hour to the disk.

Perhaps look for what is doing all this writing.

How to know what is doing all this writing? What software to scan/analyse what is doing all this writing?

What is a normal average ok writing GB per hour?

I use Edge browser, Chome browser to watch youtube videos, do they write a lot of GB to the disk?

I do macrium reflect incremental backup scheduled daily to an external drive everyday, the backup image created daily is about 6GB and it is immediately auto stored to an external hard disk connected to my PC via USB. My PC has this Samsung Pro 990 as the C: Windows, and I store data files on another internal hard disk D:, both C: and D: are backup to the external hard disk. Duration of first full backup is about 7 hours, duration of daily scheduled incremental backup is about 10 mins. Does this Macrium backup cause the 10GB per hour writing?

I guess you get 10GB per hour by calculating: Total Host Writes 29785 divide Power On Hours 2748 = 10.8

Thanks.

 

[Bob.B]

How to know what is doing all this writing? What software to scan/analyse what is doing all this writing?

What is a normal average ok writing GB per hour?

I use Edge browser, Chome browser to watch youtube videos, do they write a lot of GB to the disk?

I do macrium reflect incremental backup scheduled daily to an external drive everyday, the backup image created daily is about 6GB and it is immediately store to an external hard disk connected to my PC via USB. My PC has this Samsung Pro 990 as the C: Windows, and I store data files on another internal hard disk D:, both C: and D: are backup to the external hard disk. Does this cause the 10GB per hour writing?

I guess you get 10GB per hour by calculating: Total Host Writes 29785 divide Power On Hours 2748 = 10.8

Thanks.

I suppose you just run your stuff and watch the number of writes see if you can figure out if it's some app.

Normal?.....no idea I see a little less than 1GB per hour.