Is my NVME drive dying?

[Sandman1969]

I have the Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB, 6 days ago, when testing with userbenchmarks, it's results were the following;


Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$177
97,626 User benchmarks, average bench 199%
165GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 627 328 329 326 326 326 MB/s
Performing way above expectations (99th percentile)
239% Outstanding

Read 2,200
Write 1,212
Mixed 649
SusWrite 377
244% 1,110 MB/s

4K Read 56.4
4K Write 181
4K Mixed 63.5
263% 100 MB/s

DQ Read 1,094
DQ Write 1,096
DQ Mixed 804
684% 998 MB/s

Now it's this;

Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$177
97,626 User benchmarks, average bench 199%
114GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 242 194 103 104 104 104 MB/s
Performing way below expectations (2nd percentile)
121% Outstanding

Read 2,193
Write 225
Mixed 421
SusWrite 142
159% 745 MB/s

4K Read 56.1
4K Write 2.2
4K Mixed 3.7
91% 20.7 MB/s

This system is only maybe a few years old.

The rest of the system is like this;
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11231282

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[SgtScream]

Was a task running in the background like antivirus or windows updates?

 

[Sandman1969]

No scans were running etc. I've tried the test multiple times with the same result. Was all good til about 6 days ago now.

 

[mundial]

Can you run Samsung Magician diagnostics on the drive or HD Tune?

 

[Sandman1969]

Can you run Samsung Magician diagnostics on the drive or HD Tune?

Samsung Magician doesn't have diags, just benchmarks.
HD Tune comes up clean for it's health as in no errors found.

 

[kerberos_20]

only write is affected? u probably dont have enough free space left

 

[Sandman1969]

only write is affected? u probably dont have enough free space left

The M.2 windows partition still has 90GBs left of 167GBs.
The games partition of the M.2 drive has 21GBs of 65GBs left.

 

[SgtScream]

You're better off contacting Samsung technical support.