1 Year Old NVMe SSD with 90% Health Status

HairyChickens on 06/11/2022 - 02:13

Less than a year ago I bought a 500GB Kingston A2000 to upgrade my laptop's SATA m.2 SSD. However recently noticed on CrystalDiskInfo that the health status shows 90%. From what I've read online I shouldn't be too concerned however I would still like to know the cause of it if possible and whether I should be concerned.

I narrowed it down to my frequent unsafe shutdowns as the likely cause. It just that with this laptop in particular (ASUS Zenbook Flip 14 UX461UA) it is pretty common for the laptop to fall into a sort of "sleep coma" where the laptop will go into sleep mode but it cannot be woken even with keyboard, mouse or power button forcing me to force restart. Interestingly from memory, the laptop's old SATA m.2 SSD maintained 100% even with the sleep coma issue.

Interested in hearing your thoughts.
Thanks!

Pic of CrystalDiskInfo

Computing Computer Component Kingston M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

Comments

  • Raj09 on 06/11/2022 - 03:20

    It's odd. My ssd is 3 years old and is 100%. Try a reformat. Else buy a new one if you m want piece of mind

  • smashman42 on 06/11/2022 - 03:29

    So no write heavy workloads different between the two SSDs?

    The only way I've got even 10yo SSDs below 90% is to mess with Chia on them (like raid0-ing a bunch of little ancient sata SSDs)

  • holdenmg on 06/11/2022 - 05:09
    +1

    Have you disabled (without uninstalling) Intel(R) Audio for displays in Device Manager. After that, be sure to restart your laptop.
    https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/61399/zenbook-will-no…

    • HairyChickens on 04/12/2022 - 10:43

      Tested this for one month and it actually fixed my issue lol. That post was made very recently too so I'm glad this as been fixed after 4 years…

  • Che0063 on 06/11/2022 - 10:01

    It's likely the % health rating refers to how much of the TBW (TeraBytes Written) is remaining. SSD NAND cells have a limited number of times they can be re-written to. In CRystal Disk Info there should be a "totla host writes" number - what does that say?

    You should not be worried

  • Void on 06/11/2022 - 11:04

    That percentage is based on how many times the flash has been written over. Drives can survive at 0% for as long as they want as the percentage is just based on how long the manufacturer expects for it to last.

    • HairyChickens on 07/11/2022 - 00:43
      +1

      I asked the same thing over on LTT forums and I realized that the laptop's frequent hibernation is the more logical culprit. The best workaround I found was to put the laptop into hibernation whenever I am not using the laptop about (1-2 times a day). This worked 80% of the time and really aided me in not having to open back all my chrome tabs, Word Docs etc.

      However @holdenmg link does look quite promising and looking at the post date it reinforces how common this sleep coma issue is with the UX461UA.
      Hopefully this method will mean I don't have to chuck it to hibernation whenever I don't use the laptop.

  • oscargamer on 06/11/2022 - 12:33

    I have very similar health for my NVMe c: drive that's got similar starts and hours and data transfer as yours. Wouldn't worry until it starts to go poo poo.

    Do you have any vital, non backed up data on that drive?

    • HairyChickens on 07/11/2022 - 00:25

      I always back up.

      No offsite for this laptop but should be fine lol

  • 7ekn00 on 06/11/2022 - 12:50

    It's the crappy Kingston :/

    Had a similar thing with a Kingston A2000 in a 5950X build, swapped to a 970 EVO and it's been used far more and has far less degradation!

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