[SOLVED] New SSD life left

[leonsk29]

Just a week ago I bought a new SATA-III SSD (Kingston A400, 240GB). When first installed, it showed in the "SSD Life Left" parameter a value of 100%. But today I checked again and it shows 99%. This worries me because I haven't done anything write-intensive on that disk, just installing Windows 10 and some apps. How, after just one week of light usage, it could have spent 1% of its entire life? Because that means that a rate of 1% every week, the SSD has 2 years left of life, and that's if I continue using it lightly. On the Kingston site it says about 1 million hours MTBF (114 years!) and 80TB per day. I haven't used it to that extent, not even close, lifetime writes value is 142GB.

Should I be worried about this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Lutfij]

You might want to see if disk defragmentation is enabled, if so, disable it. You might want to also see if drive indexing is disabled for your SSD(assuming you didn't create more than one physical partition, as in C, D and E, etc), notably the OS drive/partition. Then make sure that the drive is half empty. I'd ask you to keep an eye on the drive's life but IMHO 1% can be possible at first attempt/work through of the SSD.

Make sure you're on the latest firmware update for the SSD and as stated keep an eye on the life values, if they drop too quickly, you should contact Kingston...and be prepared to explain to them the list of apps you have installed on the SSD and how they behave. One more thing, you could try and remove items at startup to help relieve writes to the disk.

 

[USAFRet]

Just a week ago I bought a new SATA-III SSD (Kingston A400, 240GB). When first installed, it showed in the "SSD Life Left" parameter a value of 100%. But today I checked again and it shows 99%. This worries me because I haven't done anything write-intensive on that disk, just installing Windows 10 and some apps. How, after just one week of light usage, it could have spent 1% of its entire life? Because that means that a rate of 1% every week, the SSD has 2 years left of life, and that's if I continue using it lightly. On the Kingston site it says about 1 million hours MTBF (114 years!) and 80TB per day. I haven't used it to that extent, not even close, lifetime writes value is 142GB.

Should I be worried about this? Thanks in advance.

Brand new drive. You need to check it over time, not just once.
It may well stay at "99%" for months.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

My A400 showed nearly perfect health percent like a week before it died at 10 months old. If I were you I would return the drive to be honest.

If you do keep it, be warned the health checker isn't always accurate.

 

[fzabkar]

Could we see a SMART report with CrystalDiskInfo?