[SOLVED] Kingston A400 Wear Indicator

[AnimalSpec]

I bought my Kingston A400 240GB in July, 1st 2019 and started to use it in July, 5th 2019. Despite I don't have any issue with the performance, I've realised that the Wear Indicator is dropping so fast. My SSD, a SATA one which is always working with temperatures higher than 40ºC, has lost 4% of its Wear Indicator in less than 4 months. It's normal? Should I care? I asked to Kingston Support and they told me that it's a normal value; I've written 2TBs to the SSD. I don't know how that happened in a few months with a SSD of 240GB — I'm just using 69GB of those 222GB. I just installed the SO — Windows 10 and all my programmes, like Malwarebytes, CCleaner, Google Chrome, etc. Motherboard: MSI B360 Gaming Pro Carbon. CPU: Intel Core i7-8700. Hope you can help me with my SSD. AHCI and TRIM are enabled. Windows defragmenter and indexing are off — for my SSD. Thank you in advance.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

What app are you using for that display. I have the same drive, and got on 30th July! I can tell you what my read/write data is.

Anyway to answer your question, it's not unusual to write that much in a few months. It's unusual in that normally there's often more written to the SSD over that period of time.
Typical usage over the life time of similar SSD's can be as much as 700tb. It will differ from drive to drive. But considering you got a few months with just 4% degrading, you can almost extrapolate how long the drive will last. They will not last forever, so you need to keep an eye on that. You will get warnings (hopefully) telling you when you should consider a replacement or back up. I'd always have both on hand anyway, just in case this does happen.

For me, your usage/drive state is perfectly okay for a few months usage.

 

[AnimalSpec]

What app are you using for that display. I have the same drive, and got on 30th July! I can tell you what my read/write data is.

Anyway to answer your question, it's not unusual to write that much in a few months. It's unusual in that normally there's often more written to the SSD over that period of time.
Typical usage over the life time of similar SSD's can be as much as 700tb. It will differ from drive to drive. But considering you got a few months with just 4% degrading, you can almost extrapolate how long the drive will last. They will not last forever, so you need to keep an eye on that. You will get warnings (hoepfully) telling you when you should consider a replacement or back up. I'd always have both on hand anyway, just in case this does happen.

For me, your usage/drive state is perfectly okay for a few months usage.

Thanks! I'm using Kingston SSD Manager.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Gimme a mo!

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

This is mine:

https://imgur.com/8ysuqLg

View: https://imgur.com/8ysuqLg


How did you determine the written data amount? I can't be certain of the uptime, but it's possible I installed the drive mid August.

Given that, i don't think the usage is too different, and is approx where you would expect it to be. IMO, there's nothing to worry about.

 

[AnimalSpec]

Gimme a mo!

Okk, than's again. Love u. <3!

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Okk, than's again. Love u. <3!

No worries, glad to help!

If you are satisfied with the answer, you can choose one as the solution. This will close the thread.

Have a great evening. At least it's evening where I am, and Halloween too. Scary! Don't let the ghouls get ya!

 

[NightHawkRMX]

https://imgur.com/ZSAZHaa

View: https://imgur.com/ZSAZHaa

My A400 240gb running since around the beginning of 2019. It was a secondary drive for a while and is now the primary OS drive.

It all seems fine. Nothing to be worried about.

 

[AnimalSpec]

This is mine:

https://imgur.com/8ysuqLg

View: https://imgur.com/8ysuqLg


How did you determine the written data amount? I can't be certain of the uptime, but it's possible I installed the drive mid August.

Given that, i don't think the usage is too different, and is approx where you would expect it to be. IMO, there's nothing to worry about.

You can see the written data amount if you export health data. Let me give you an example:

 

[USAFRet]

The first few weeks/months of a new drive has a LOT more write cycles than it will next year for the same time period.
Especially if this is the OS drive.

If you were to keep a log of how many writes on the first of every month for the next year, you'd find that curve flattening out.
Unless you install/delete a lot of stuff all the time.