SSD Health decreased to 99% in 2weeks

[ron2456]

My ssd health as determined by Kingston monitoring software has decreased to 99%. But hdsentinel reports it as 100%. I am confused now. Since its a new ssd which isn't stressed much as I have a hdd as data drive.
Also Hdsentinel reports performance at 80% since trim is not enabled but thats wrong since trim is enabled and when I run Optimised it shows X% trimmed.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What SSD model is that?
Generally for SSD it's recommended to leave some part of it unpartitioned.
This helps preserving drive performance and effectiveness of wear leveling algorithms.

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

 

[gaborbarla]

I would trust the manufacturer's display more over a 3rd party tool. 100% and 99% is still a good number. Make sure automatic defragging is not enabled on the SSD drive in windows (normaly it is). Defragging just wears away the drive but SSDs do not benefit from it.

Trim should be automatically on in windows 10. You can check if it is on by running in CMD prompt (under admin credentialls)
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If it displays 0 then TRIM is enabled.

Keep an eye on that % value you mentioned just in case something is trashing the drive and uses it up too fast. Generally speaking you should not go below 99% for a very long time. I have a 120GB SSD in my work PC which I used since 2012 December and it is still on 99%. I recompile a lot of code and still the drive is in tip top shape. It should not die an early death unless you are doing heavy copying Gigs and gigs of stuff every day or run high volume database transaction or something from it. Generally you can just forget about it, it should last beyond it is useful end date for everyday use.

If you are concerned about performance not being optimal, run something like AS SSD and compare your results to other people having the same drive as you. It could be affected by what type of sata port you are plugged into, e.g. Intel vs other. SATA2 vs SATA3, or running your BIOS in IDE vs AHCI (would be very slow in IDE).

 

[ron2456]

What SSD model is that?
Generally for SSD it's recommended to leave some part of it unpartitioned.
This helps preserving drive performance and effectiveness of wear leveling algorithms.

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

I would trust the manufacturer's display more over a 3rd party tool. 100% and 99% is still a good number. Make sure automatic defragging is not enabled on the SSD drive in windows (normaly it is). Defragging just wears away the drive but SSDs do not benefit from it.

Trim should be automatically on in windows 10. You can check if it is on by running in CMD prompt (under admin credentialls)
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If it displays 0 then TRIM is enabled.

Keep an eye on that % value you mentioned just in case something is trashing the drive and uses it up too fast. Generally speaking you should not go below 99% for a very long time. I have a 120GB SSD in my work PC which I used since 2012 December and it is still on 99%. I recompile a lot of code and still the drive is in tip top shape. It should not die an early death unless you are doing heavy copying Gigs and gigs of stuff every day or run high volume database transaction or something from it. Generally you can just forget about it, it should last beyond it is useful end date for everyday use.

If you are concerned about performance not being optimal, run something like AS SSD and compare your results to other people having the same drive as you. It could be affected by what type of sata port you are plugged into, e.g. Intel vs other. SATA2 vs SATA3, or running your BIOS in IDE vs AHCI (would be very slow in IDE).

Auto optimization is indeed enabled but it doesn't defrag instead it just trims the drive.
Its a Kingston a400 120gig and all of the available space has been made into a partition.
Its connected to sata 3 port and is in ahci mode.

 

[ron2456]

I had a word with Kingston and they said that if ssd reached 25% life or lower then I should start worrying.

But from what I have calculated is that if at 45hours 1% decreased then ssd will reach 0% at 188 days of full work or at around 2years of moderate to light use.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Leave part of the drive unpartitioned ~ 10% at the end of the drive.

 

[ron2456]

Is over Provisioning necessary? What are ots benefits? And how to do it after os is installed?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Show screenshot from Disk Management first. I already asked for it yesterday btw.

 

[ron2456]

Show screenshot from Disk Management first. I already asked for it yesterday btw.

Sorry I missed it.

https://i.imgur.com/vcE9U7g.png

Apps and Data is WD blue

 

[SkyNetRising]

Everything is easy there.
Right-click on C: in Disk Management and shrink it by 10240 MB.

 

[ron2456]

Okay, so this will help to prolong the life of the ssd? Also should I turn windows disk optimization on?

Even though this ssd is dirt cheap but its performance is excellent I plan to hold on to it as a game drive after I buy a better one as OS after few years.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Okay, so this will help to prolong the life of the ssd? Also should I turn windows disk optimization on?

Yes and yes.

 

[ron2456]

Awkhay. Thanks for your help.

 

[ron2456]

Everything is easy there.
Right-click on C: in Disk Management and shrink it by 10240 MB.

Is this okay now?

https://i.imgur.com/kfMdEPd.png

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yep. Perfect.