Question SSD with extreme total writes?

[Matias4all]

Hello, i have a Kingston A400 480gb SSD, is almost 4 years old and i use it everyday for at least 13 hours

Checked CrystalDiskInfo and it has only 6% health status and 210.000 GB written!!! Yes, 210 thousand (204 TB)

Is this normal or even possible ? i use it on Web browsing, video watching and some gaming, nothing weird

Just uploaded firmware and still shows same info, also on Kingston ssd manager

Is the SSD dying ? Can it be a bug or something?
Thank you so much for reading!!!

https://imgur.com/a/WHAEiM0

View: https://imgur.com/a/WHAEiM0

 

[SoumithCS]

204TB? I think it's more than the peak value of TBW published by manufacturer. SSD life expectancy depends on vast no.of factors such as Voltage drops, Concurrent Loads and etc.. Be sure to have backup of important files. Have a great day 😉
Here is a reference image:

https://imgur.com/a/sFigk8X

 

[Bob.B]

Hello, i have a Kingston A400 480gb SSD, is almost 4 years old and i use it everyday for at least 13 hours

Checked CrystalDiskInfo and it has only 6% health status and 210.000 GB written!!! Yes, 210 thousand (204 TB)

Is this normal or even possible ? i use it on Web browsing, video watching and some gaming, nothing weird

Just uploaded firmware and still shows same info, also on Kingston ssd manager

Is the SSD dying ? Can it be a bug or something?
Thank you so much for reading!!!

https://imgur.com/a/WHAEiM0

View: https://imgur.com/a/WHAEiM0

If the numbers are correct you are writing close to 12GB/hr to the disk.

That's close to 8x what I see.

Perhaps try to find what is doing all this writing.

 

[Maxxify]

Is the SSD dying ?

You actually have 453TB of NAND writes. This is creeping up on 1000 PEC (program/erase cycles). You could ID the flash with a certain utility which would ballpark the expected lifetime for writes. The original A400 used 15nm planar Toshiba TLC (rated for 1000 PEC) then transitioned to 3D TLC with up to 3000 PEC. Of course, performance drops after a certain point for ECC and the drive will die relatively rapidly once it starts digging into spare blocks. If your numbers are accurate, I would consider saving up for a new SSD and make sure your data is backed up, although an A400 with 3D TLC should be good for at least up to 1500 PEC (~750TB of NAND writes for you) before it has any issues.