I’m wondering how long a failing SSD can keep going before it completely gives up.
I’ve been dealing with BSODs for the past few days and initially thought my RAM was the culprit, so I ended up wasting a lot of time tweaking and underclocking it.
Today, I finally decided to check my drive’s health, and this is what I found...
Just a SMART report showing numerical data doesn't mean the drive is faulty or dead.
What does Samsung Magician say? Hard Disk Sentinel?
You might just need to secure erase it and continue using it as a non-main drive.
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Removed last reply, seems I got my numbers all wrong.
If I got this right, you have been writing an average of 42GB a day to that drive.
Over 83TB to a drive with an MTBF of 35TB, so you have written over twice what it is rated for.
So no wonder it is failing, but it far exceeded what would be sensibly expected of it.
Hopefully a replacement, maybe a 250 or 500GB SATA drive is still sort of affordable.
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50k hour lifespan? Or is it more a matter of TBW and DWPD?
Drive warrenty 3 to 5 years? Never give this much thought, but your post changed that!
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Eventually you won't be able to write to it. That is the issue generally with a long lived SSD. So it might be fully teaching eol. Any chance you could get a replacement and do a data/clone copy over with software?
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