DavidtheDuke

Yep, I have already talked witht hem and they've said as much. Ah well, it would've been nice to know what's going on regardless for sure, but given I'm backed by t he warranty and the idea that it only has 60TBW is almost impossible. Thanks for the looking at it.

Thanks for the response. Alright, I can see how that's possible. However, I've written about 3 TB and the drive is now at 95%. That would mean, to meet the idea of it writing more terabytes than stated, it would have had to have written 150TB rather than 3, since 150TB is 5% of 3000TBW. Do you think the "extra-writing" you depict here could really go that much higher than what is stated? Is there some software you'd recommend to generate a SMART result? Unfortunately Acronis Drive Monitor and Gsmartcontrol both seem to not support it. Sabrent lets me generate a file but it appears to be basically the info that was already in one of the screenshots I provided. I went ahead and attached it though. The fact that SMART seems to not be fully supported on the drive does make me suspect the percentage-used may not be accurate, then again you can see the percentage used on their own software. 2 - NVMe - Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Plus - SN_03850711195D88429887.csv

Hm, well if I understand you, essentially you want to clear out the the SSD of non-OS files is essentially you may need to manually delete them. This could be rather easy if the bulk of your storage is in your steam library or something.

Do you mean you want to just have your OS install back on it? Why not just clone the drive again and get alot more disk space?

One more update, I asked if I manage to exhaust the SSD to the point of read-only before 3000 TBW, and the rep effectively said yes:

Update: I installed about 600-700gbs of steam games I had to see if I could push it 1% and so far I did, it's now 95%. I've contacted Sabrent to see what they have to say about it with basically the original post copy pasted to them. I kind of doubt the TBW is this bad in reality in comparison to the advertised spec, but I'd like to know for sure, because I definitely would've been much m ore reticent to pay $800 like I did in February. It is possible they've changed the and or the amount to save money, though to this extent I doubt. I wanted an SSD I could really hammer for years as my gaming and storage SSD without having to worry about a possible freaking ~60TBW instead of the advertised 3000. I did register and have the 5 years warranty, but would they even cover something like a quickly degrading SSD? Hopefully it's a firmware bug or something.

well I dunno if you can use the cable to detect another hdd *and* hear it spinning it sounds like something in it is dead. Maybe there's more you can do but process of elimination using known good parts is about as good as someone like me anyway can recommend

I know this sounds basic, but I'm just making sure, you can't see it in Adminstrator tools right? If you can't see it in that I would try to connect it to another computer at this point

I'd bet it's me coming in and out of standby sometimes twice a day.. Anyway, I hope maybe it works in 4% increments or something, and each time you go below a 4% threshold, it drops all the way 4%. I doubt that a bit though, but I didn't watch mine from brand new to now.

First thing I would do is check the SATA connections, then try to swap the cable and see if windows sees it then. I would shut it down each time when doing this, never tried to do while running (i'm a bit of a newb) edit: If swapping the cables and checking the power connections etc doesn't work, it is possible it is dead, however I would try to find some other way of confirming this before assuming so. If you can't get it to show at all ever it might not hurt to try plugging the HD into an external enclosure do, after you have exhausted other options, like trying different SATA ports on the mobo, different cables, etc.

So I got this Sabrent 4tb SB-RKT4P-4TB nvme drive about 5 months ago. benchmarks are over 6 gbs and it reads and writes as advertised, no complaints. However I recently got a Ryzen 5000 series and no mobo and stuff so I've been checking temps again etc and when I installed HWinfo64 I saw my drive life: According to Sabrent's own drive utility, my "Disk's Health" is 100% (I think that basically means nothing catastrophic or highly debilitating is occuring), yet if you notice the "Percentage Used" on the top right of this screenshot, it matches up with the 96% drive life according to the other two softwares: Lastly, I found a product page for this SSD series and the TBW spec for this drive on this page: https://www.sabrent.com/rocket-4-plus/ (you have to scroll down a bit and wait for the fancy graphics to load unfortunately) Here's a screenshot of the spec list, had to break it into two because to fit in the model number and everything was too long for my screen: So, Sabrent lists 3000 TBW for this drive, yet writing only two terabytes has dropped it down to 96%?! While it has taken 5 months for me to reach this and that was from copying over from a 1tb ssd to begin with and therefore doesn't represent normal use and means I'm probably good for even the next 5 years, I never thought the write endurance was this low or that that was what 3000tbw implied. Did I simply misunderstand the TBW here or is maybe the drive softwares misreporting? AFAIK 3000 TBW means 2tb should be far less than 1%, let alone 4%. Thanks for any opinions/explanations!

Heck, Chrome can use a ton of ram, I've seen it use 6-7 gbs out of 16 easily with just a few dozen tabs open.

yah I sure did. Stupid to assume just because the fans don't spin it can't be the BIOS

Hey guys wanted to let you know that taking out the CMOS battery and waiting 20 minutes is what did the trick. I'm already in Win10 and used the computer to pose this. Thanks again!