What is happening to my SSD??

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I am getting some weird readings from SSDlife!!

SSD on the 17th after around three weeks of usage.



SSD tested this week.



Indexing and defragmentation are switched off and the page file is on a hard disk.

I ran the software today.



I know the lifespan reading is meant to a bit weird with OCZ drives though:


http://ssd-life.com/eng/ssdlife-faq-...questions.html

"I updated the firmware and the drive health fell dramatically. What's the matter?

This problem became widely known after firmware 1.5 for OCZ Vertex, Onyx drives had been released. A lot of users complained that, after they had updated the firmware, the drive health fell dramatically, for example, from 80% to 45%.
The thing is that OCZ decided to revise the maximum number of erasing operations for flash memory and reduced it by 50% from 10 000 to 5 000 (we think they did it just to be on the safe side). And since the reliability and wear of an SSD is calculated depending on these figures, the estimated lifetime in S.M.A.R.T. parameters changed as well. Honestly getting information over from the drive manufacturer to the user, SSDLife just showed this fact "

However,the amount of data read and written looks too high!!

10GB of data written and 6GB read in a day?? The SSD was not switched on and off 9 times in the last day or so.

[danroyle]

maybe the latest firmware is simply reporting the data wrongly and as such ssdlife is giving those results.

I have a kingston ssd now v100+ and mine reads at
health 100%
work time 148 hours (6 days 4 hours)
powered on 172 times
trime supported and enabled
est lifetime 9 years 1 month 6 days

mines not sandforce though its a toshiba controller i think.

[Golden Dragoon]

The dive may be counting going to sleep as an off\on cycle, and don't forget that if your os reads a file from disc, and modifies it and writes it back to disc, it doesn't need to read it back from disk again, as it is already in memory, so any further modifications will just be written back to disc with no reads, hence your writes being higher than your reads.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have Sins of a Solar Empire Installed on the SSD and played this for an hour yesterday. I doubt the Windows Updates are that big(in fact I don't remember any being installed yesterday).

I did not download any large files or used anything like iPlayer. I might have used YouTube a bit.

I will give the disk a scan to see if the computer has some malware on it. I did so recently and it looked fine.

Edit!!

I am still confused why the estimated drive life has fallen so much!!

If anything the amount of data written to and read from the drive has decreased in the last few weeks. So why has the lifespan fallen so much??

I still don't understand why the SSD has supposedly moved so much data around yesterday.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I did think of one thing though. The SSD is running in a part of my computer which is warmer(under my 250GB hard drive)

Having said that I don't download that much stuff and hardly use on-line streaming too. I am just perplexed at how around 500GB of data being written to the disc and around 375GB data being read from the disc in 5 weeks.

[spoon_]

Nothing is happening to your SSD - SSDLife is piece of trash that's all.

[crazyfool]

I do remember reading a post in the other ssdlife thread about it not correctly reporting results so could just be that

[Hicks12]

its a sandforce need anymore be said?


My laptop drive, its a second hand intel ssd and its still solid (need to clear some space me thinks though!). When my pc starts working again ill try my Corsair F60.

I found that the sandforce ssd were a complete let down compared to having this intel in my laptop, my motherboard on the pc doesnt support achi etc but apparently trim works. Performance was a fair bit off stated speeds and performance was well, meh and corsair basically told me it was me doing so many benchmarks on it causing the speed different/performance drop happening so quickly (i ran two tests....shouldnt affect an ssd that much!) so ive just had to ignore the issue, its still faster than a hard drive but not by much from use so far, maybe when i get achi support it will improve as they also said that was the reason the initial benchmarks were a fair bit lower as my Mobo was the bottleneck.

[GoNz0]

Nothing is happening to your SSD - SSDLife is piece of trash that's all.

i was about to say why trust a free 3rd party bit of freeware, but that sums it up better


q: does it work

a: yes

then leave it be

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I am running the SSD off an H67 motherboard with ACHI enabled.

I will just make a backup ISO and let it be then!

I am still perplexed by the amount of data supposedly written and read!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

its a sandforce need anymore be said?


My laptop drive, its a second hand intel ssd and its still solid (need to clear some space me thinks though!). When my pc starts working again ill try my Corsair F60.

I found that the sandforce ssd were a complete let down compared to having this intel in my laptop, my motherboard on the pc doesnt support achi etc but apparently trim works. Performance was a fair bit off stated speeds and performance was well, meh and corsair basically told me it was me doing so many benchmarks on it causing the speed different/performance drop happening so quickly (i ran two tests....shouldnt affect an ssd that much!) so ive just had to ignore the issue, its still faster than a hard drive but not by much from use so far, maybe when i get achi support it will improve as they also said that was the reason the initial benchmarks were a fair bit lower as my Mobo was the bottleneck.

I think my SSD uses an Indilinx BareFoot controller.

[Hicks12]

oh i thought it was a vertex 2! yeah the vertex 1 uses the barefoot controller.
My PC LIVES after so much water over the HDD/ssd im suprised so heres a report of my f60

[Bagnaj97]

CAT, you have the same SSD as me, mine's over 2 years old now and has been used and abused, and it's still going strong. Quit yer whining lad!