[SOLVED] M.2 Reliable Recommendations.

[Fcc]

Actually got a PNY 240gb SSD, bought it december 2020 and now it has 50% health on crystaldiskinfo, my pc has gotten slower when opening stuff and boot time went from 20 secs to a minute, always left it with at least 25% to 30% free space, as i've read this could prevent short lifespan, but it still got health decreased.

Looking for a reliable, durable long-term 500GB M.2, mainly for OS and programs, probably 1 or 2 games, any recommendations?

thanks.

 

[Endre]

Actually got a PNY 240gb SSD, bought it december 2020 and now it has 50% health on crystaldiskinfo, my pc has gotten slower when opening stuff and boot time went from 20 secs to a minute, always left it with at least 25% to 30% free space, as i've read this could prevent short lifespan, but it still got health decreased.

Looking for a reliable, durable long-term 500GB M.2, mainly for OS and programs, probably 1 or 2 games, any recommendations?

thanks.

Hello!

SSD longevity and speed are directly influenced by the NAND / V-NAND type.
SSD manufacturers are hiding the real storage speed by adding a DDR memory cache. Immediately as your process exceeds the size of that cache, like when copying a larger file, you’ll see a huge speed drop.

Let’s take a look at NAND types:

1. MLC: 2-bit (very fast and durable).
2. TLC: 3-bit (a lot slower than MLC, and 10x less durable!).
3. QLC: 4-bit (very slow; not durable).
4. PLC: 5-bit (as slow as a HDD; crappy durability; unreliable).

My SSD recommendation:
Samsung 970 PRO 1TB (M.2-2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4; 1GB LPDDR4 cache; 2-bit MLC V-NAND).

NOTE:
Please don’t be fooled by the huge sequential speeds numbers! They don’t mean much in the real world!

 

[Fcc]

Open file explorer.
Right click the C drive.
Select properties/tools/optimize.
Set up a schedule for retrim and defrag for your disk.

Done, i actually found out my ssd was always being written on by the pagefile which i was recommended here in the forums a while back ago to let windows automatically manage it. It will automatically set up 12gb which is unneccesary for 16gb ram, so i just put the same size 2048 in the minimum and maximum values, as i dont usually run anything that use all 16gb, besides Rust which takes like 12-14gb at most and im always alt tabing for chrome and discord. Since the day i post this forum my ssd was on 55%, then you asked for a screenshot of the CDI it was on 52% as you saw, now it went down 50%.

 

[Bob.B]

Done, i actually found out my ssd was always being written on by the pagefile which i was recommended here in the forums a while back ago to let windows automatically manage it. It will automatically set up 12gb which is unneccesary for 16gb ram, so i just put the same size 2048 in the minimum and maximum values, as i dont usually run anything that use all 16gb, besides Rust which takes like 12-14gb at most and im always alt tabing for chrome and discord. Since the day i post this forum my ssd was on 55%, then you asked for a screenshot of the CDI it was on 52% as you saw, now it went down 50%.

I can't comment about the page file as I don't use one.

As per the cdi for your ssd it shows 14GB/hr being written to the ssd.
I don't think there is a normal for that number depends on what the machine is doing.
I'll just comment that I'm seeing 1.5GB/hr.

Perhaps keep an eye on the resource monitor/disk and see if something is doing a lot of writing to the ssd.

 

[Fcc]

I can't comment about the page file as I don't use one.

As per the cdi for your ssd it shows 14GB/hr being written to the ssd.
I don't think there is a normal for that number depends on what the machine is doing.
I'll just comment that I'm seeing 1.5GB/hr.

Perhaps keep an eye on the resource monitor/disk and see if something is doing a lot of writing to the ssd.

I was checking resource monitor, there was aways a temp file constantly writing 1100-1500b/sec, i just moved both user temp and system temp files to a folder in my HDD.

 

[Bob.B]

I was checking resource monitor, there was aways a temp file constantly writing 1100-1500b/sec, i just moved both user temp and system temp files to a folder in my HDD.

Yup....piece at a time see if you can bring down the ssd writes.
Something you might want to chase is what app is doing this temp file writing.
It might be possible to stop it at the source.

 

[Endre]

I was checking resource monitor, there was aways a temp file constantly writing 1100-1500b/sec, i just moved both user temp and system temp files to a folder in my HDD.

You could do something else:
Create a RAMDisk partition using a free program like ImDisk (it will create a new partition on the PC using your RAM memory).
Whenever you’ll restart the PC, the stuff that is being stored on the RAMDisk will be erased.

Then select the TEMP and TMP files default location on the “Temp” folder created by ImDisk.

Also, you could change the default location for your browser’s temp files on the “Temp” folder created by ImDisk.

PS:
There are lots of tutorials on YouTube on how to use ImDisk (I also use it right now, as we speak).

 

[USAFRet]

I was checking resource monitor, there was aways a temp file constantly writing 1100-1500b/sec, i just moved both user temp and system temp files to a folder in my HDD.

You should look into what is actually doing that.