Question SSD critical health

[fridgecleaner3]

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Is it time to upgrade my SSD? It's my boot drive that I've used for a few years and how would I go about moving the data to new SSD?

 

[CountMike]

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Is it time to upgrade my SSD? It's my boot drive that I've used for a few years and how would I go about moving the data to new SSD?

Can't tel for sure if or what's wrong without seeing SMART table but that health estimate is probably just due to age and large number of writes passing TBW estimate. Is it causing you any troubles ? Do you have it backed up ?
You can change and upgrade it to any SATA 2.5" SSD and transferring contents could be done in number of ways including cloning or restoring from a backup, copying partitions from partitioning program etc.
Call again if/when you get another one and please state the rest of hardware and OS.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Can you show the data from the SMART tab? It does not say exactly what metric is alarming in that screen.

As always, backup immediately in any case. Better safe than sorry.

 

[fridgecleaner3]

Can you show the data from the SMART tab? It does not say exactly what metric is alarming in that screen.

As always, backup immediately in any case. Better safe than sorry.

https://imgur.com/a/nWd8qqH

View: https://imgur.com/a/nWd8qqH

 

[SkyNetRising]

Is it time to upgrade my SSD? It's my boot drive that I've used for a few years and how would I go about moving the data to new SSD?

That generic software seems to be interpreting SMART parameters wrong.

Use Kingston SSD Manager instead.
https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager

 

[geofelt]

Urgently time to get another C drive.
The notes from the display indicate that smart shows very little useful life left.
120gb is WAAY too small for a C drive.
You may already have noticed slower performance.

The easiest way to change out the ssd is to buy a Samsung 870 EVO.
240gb is about $50.
500gb is about $53 aas a black friday deal:
https://www.newegg.com/samsung-500gb-870-evo-series-sata/p/N82E16820147792?Item=N82E16820147792
1tb is about $100.

Install the new ssd.
Download samsung magician and run the ssd migration app to move your C drive to the new ssd.
The original will remain unchanged.
The process is lengthy, perhaps 2/3 hours.
When done, shut down and remove the original drive.
Your next boot will use the new drive with added space.

Keep the original as a backup or repurpose it later as added storage.

 

[fridgecleaner3]

That generic software seems to be interpreting SMART parameters wrong.

Use Kingston SSD Manager instead.
https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ssdmanager

kingston SSD manager gives me same results

https://imgur.com/a/UhRD5YD

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[fzabkar]

I wouldn't recommend the 870 EVO.

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=42876

As for the health, the Average Erase Count is 0x3CD (= 973 decimal). Presumably the NAND flash rating (for SMART purposes) is 1000 P/E cycles, which means that the remaining life is 2.7%.

Host Writes is 0xAF1B GB = 44827 GB = 44.8 TB. That would be close to the TBW rating for a 120GB SSD.

 

[USAFRet]

Is it time to upgrade my SSD? It's my boot drive that I've used for a few years and how would I go about moving the data to new SSD?

It is long past time for you to start a good backup routine.
That drive could die tomorrow. Or as I'm typing this.

Cloning is a possibility. If you don't wait too long.

 

[fridgecleaner3]

I wouldn't recommend the 870 EVO.

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=42876

As for the health, the Average Erase Count is 0x3CD (= 973 decimal). Presumably the NAND flash rating (for SMART purposes) is 1000 P/E cycles, which means that the remaining life is 2.7%.

Host Writes is 0xAF1B GB = 44827 GB = 44.8 TB. That would be close to the TBW rating for a 120GB SSD.

i think i will get a WD Black SN850X

 

[USAFRet]

i think i will get a WD Black SN850X

What motherboard?

 

[fridgecleaner3]

What motherboard?

I don't know the name of it because it came in a prebuilt pc but its like this one
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/626015/aspire-gx-785-skylake-b150-motherboard-layout

 

[USAFRet]

I don't know the name of it because it came in a prebuilt pc but its like this one
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/626015/aspire-gx-785-skylake-b150-motherboard-layout

Unlikely that has a PCIe 4.0 M.2 port.
As such, you wouldn't be able to take full advantage of the SN850X.
The drive is backwards compatible to a 3.0 port, but only at 3.0 speed.

 

[fridgecleaner3]

Unlikely that has a PCIe 4.0 M.2 port.
As such, you wouldn't be able to take full advantage of the SN850X.
The drive is backwards compatible to a 3.0 port, but only at 3.0 speed.

Yea I just checked and it looks like its a 3.0 port. I think I'll still get it since I'll be upgrading my pc in a year or so and I can already have a decent SSD to put in it. I'm fine as long as it works