Question HWInfo and Device Health

[eco_bach]

HWInfo is showing 96% device health on what I believe is my startup C drive (Samsung NVMe)
Should this be a concern?
If not what is the threshold for a 'healthy' drive?

https://imgur.com/a/5h7kPQl

View: https://imgur.com/a/5h7kPQl


Thanks!

 

[Lafong]

Totally normal.

Power on hours equivalent to 24 hours a day for 139 weeks...during which time "health" has fallen from 100 to 96.

Looks like 60 terabytes of writes. That might be higher than most people but not alarmingly so.

Are you already beyond the warranty limit?

When was the drive first put into use?

Ride it till it quits or you run out of capacity.

 

[USAFRet]

"health" is irrelevant.

Any drive is subject to die, at any moment.
That particular drive may last another decade, or it might die as I type this.

Of my last few dead drives:

1x 8TB Toshiba Enterprise. Went from 0 bad sectors to 14k+ in about 7 days. 7 months old.
1x 3TB WD Green. Went from perfect to dead dead dead in about 36 hours. 5 weeks old.
1x 960GB SanDisk SATA III SSD. Died isntantly. Zero warning. 3 years, 33 days old.

All 3 replaced under warranty.
Full drive backups saved my data.


Bottom line - You should be prepared for total fail at any moment. Backups are your friend.

 

[eco_bach]

Thanks guys!