SSD Health
SSD Health
Hi guys! Yesterdsy i bought a ssd (kingston a400 120gb sata III) and i installed a game (mount and blade bannelord- 40 gb) and l was playing some hours, but today when i opened my pc and hd sentinel and i looked at health and it was 99% after 1 day of use. I am a bit worried and i afraid to play the game again because i want this ssd to last for 2-3 years. I bought it for one or two games, photoshop etc. And i don't know if is ok to have 112 gb at lifetime writes after one day of playing games.
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Re: SSD Health
This does not depend on the game of course, but caused by the total amount of written data, probably caused by the installation of the game and also other writes, eg. by Windows installation too.
As you may know, the memory cells in solid state devices experience wear during each write operations and each cells tolerate only a limited
number of overwrite passes. So the health of the SSD will slowly but surely decrease. This is normal.
Hard Disk Sentinel shows which attribute(s) used to determine the health when the SSD is otherwise perfect and the decrease is related to wearout.
Please check https://www.hdsentinel.com/ssd_case_hea ... earout.php
for more information about the situation.
You may check the specifications for your SSD: if you open this page:
https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/SA400S37_us.pdf
it shows that the Total Bytes Written (TBW) value for your 120 GB model is 40TB.
It means that the health will surely decrease about every 400 GBytes written (1/100 of that value). According the experiences, usually the value drops from 100 to 99 sooner but then the decrease will be slower of course.
As you may know, the memory cells in solid state devices experience wear during each write operations and each cells tolerate only a limited
number of overwrite passes. So the health of the SSD will slowly but surely decrease. This is normal.
Hard Disk Sentinel shows which attribute(s) used to determine the health when the SSD is otherwise perfect and the decrease is related to wearout.
Please check https://www.hdsentinel.com/ssd_case_hea ... earout.php
for more information about the situation.
You may check the specifications for your SSD: if you open this page:
https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/SA400S37_us.pdf
it shows that the Total Bytes Written (TBW) value for your 120 GB model is 40TB.
It means that the health will surely decrease about every 400 GBytes written (1/100 of that value). According the experiences, usually the value drops from 100 to 99 sooner but then the decrease will be slower of course.