Question Relatively new SSD is showing only 39% health ?

[Stinky Pikachu]

I've had this laptop for only a year, ive had many issues with it with GPU drivers and I've had to get it repaired. Since the past few weeks I've been getting a lot of BSODs, at least one a day. Restarting my laptop regularly has reduced the problem but it remains. I used Hard Disk Sentinel to check the OS drive and got these results:

Performance: 100%
Health: 39%
Power on time: 135 days, 5 hours
Estimated remaining lifetime: 257 days
Lifetime writes: 6.46TB

Is there anything I can do aside from changing the drive?

 

[SkyNetRising]

I used hard disk sentinel to check the OS drive and got these results:
Health: 39%
Lifetime writes: 6.46TB

What model drive is it?
Can you show a screenshot?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[Stinky Pikachu]

What model drive is it?
Can you show a screenshot?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Thanks for the quick response! I think its somewhere in here

https://imgur.com/a/VpqeEUZ

View: https://imgur.com/a/VpqeEUZ

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Can you screenshot the output of the SMART report?

Likely there is some value that is causing the utility to report low health (IE low reserve blocks or something), but without seeing all of those values it's hard to say.

 

[Stinky Pikachu]

Can you screenshot the output of the SMART report?

Likely there is some value that is causing the utility to report low health (IE low reserve blocks or something), but without seeing all of those values it's hard to say.

https://imgur.com/a/B59GLy2

View: https://imgur.com/a/B59GLy2

Here you go! thanks again

 

[kanewolf]

You should ASSUME that your disk will fail at any time and prepare for that. That means automated backups.

A 39% health definitely doesn't match the data written. It should be about 90% with 6TB written since that disk has a 60TB write endurance.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

I'm not seeing anything alarming in that SMART report that suggests the drive is failing in any way.

Usually the health % is indicative of how much write wear the drive has, but 6TBW is a miniscule percentage of the endurance rating of a Kingston NV2. Not sure what is causing that health %, it could just be misreporting.

I would always recommend backing up your system. As long as you have a backup I would not worry about this health %. At worst, it dies, you get a warranty replacement from Kingston, and restore from your backup.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

You should ASSUME that your disk will fail at any time and prepare for that. That means automated backups.

A 39% health definitely doesn't match the data written. It should be about 90% with 6TB written since that disk has a 60TB write endurance.

I believe it is 160tbw rated

 

[kanewolf]

I believe it is 160tbw rated

Yeah, I misread the model. There was another thread with the 250GB that has a 60TB endurance ...

 

[Stinky Pikachu]

I'm not seeing anything alarming in that SMART report that suggests the drive is failing in any way.

Usually the health % is indicative of how much write wear the drive has, but 6TBW is a miniscule percentage of the endurance rating of a Kingston NV2. Not sure what is causing that health %, it could just be misreporting.

I would always recommend backing up your system. As long as you have a backup I would not worry about this health %. At worst, it dies, you get a warranty replacement from Kingston, and restore from your backup.

Its odd because windows seems to be detecting errors in the drive, keeps telling me to restart to repair the drive, it also says "scanning and repairing drive C" everytime I get a blue screen, something is definitely wrong i just cant figure it out

 

[PiersPlowman]

Its odd because windows seems to be detecting errors in the drive, keeps telling me to restart to repair the drive, it also says "scanning and repairing drive C" everytime I get a blue screen, something is definitely wrong i just cant figure it out

Get your data off that drive and replace it, STAT.

I bought a Biostar (!) M.2 SSD about 5 years ago and it still has 93% health. Something is really funky with your drive.

 

[Bob.B]

Its odd because windows seems to be detecting errors in the drive, keeps telling me to restart to repair the drive, it also says "scanning and repairing drive C" everytime I get a blue screen, something is definitely wrong i just cant figure it out

Cheap test.....reseat the m.2.

 

[rcald2000]

Stinky Pikachu, hello. I recommend that you immediately download and run this official SSD manager software and update your SSD firmware:

(Kingston SSD Manager x64 v1.5.4.9)
Located on left side of webpage below

https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager

** notes **

Kingston NV2 500GB (model #)
Kingston snv2s500g (part #)
Total Endurance of drive: 160TB
Endurance remaining 96% (6.46 TB / 160TB)

I would only believe Kingston's manager software, or SMART data. If only your 3rd party utility is reporting a problem, then I'd assume that it was mistaken.