Sudden Weird Issues With 2 SSDs (Crucial MX500) = Anyone With Similar Experiences ?

[worstalentscout]

hi, wonder if other users of Crucial MX500 had similar incidents ?..................

 

1st issue

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my desktop's Internal SSD (250GB) on Windows 10 Pro suddenly wrote 30GB in 1 day............i average 17GB of writes daily for months.............but i didn't do anything unusual (is this a cause for concern) ?

 

 

2nd issue

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i have a Spare SSD (500GB) (with Windows 7 still on it) connected to PC's USB port via SATA to USB adapter........i left it connected and didn't ''eject'' it over 1 day........and the free space went from under 190GB to 350GB ....................could this be due to garbage collection ??

 

surprisingly all my documents, pictures and videos were still there...............

[porina]

Both sounds like nothing to do with hardware to me, and everything to do with Windows or other software. Case 1, hard to tell unless you were monitoring it at the time to see what was going on, but could be some rogue software. Case 2 is not due to SSD garbage collection. That is not visible at filesystem level. Windows and other software may use attached devices as temporary stores so maybe it cleared some of that up. 

[worstalentscout]

2 hours ago, porina said:

Both sounds like nothing to do with hardware to me, and everything to do with Windows or other software. Case 1, hard to tell unless you were monitoring it at the time to see what was going on, but could be some rogue software. Case 2 is not due to SSD garbage collection. That is not visible at filesystem level. Windows and other software may use attached devices as temporary stores so maybe it cleared some of that up. 

 

many thanks for taking the time to reply me............

 

i always use Crucial's own software to monitor the writes on a daily basis...............

 

as for the other SSD...............well, i was curious why there was so little free space previously when it was used as boot drive in an older Windows7-32bit computer............i guess as long as the info is all there then more free space is a bonus !

[NewMaxx]

A batch of MX500s did have a write amplification bug. There's a huge thread on it at Tom's Hardware. In general it's not something to worry about and is pretty rare, newer MX500s do not have this. There may also have been a firmware update; a secure erase after may help, too.

[worstalentscout]

18 hours ago, NewMaxx said:

A batch of MX500s did have a write amplification bug. There's a huge thread on it at Tom's Hardware. In general it's not something to worry about and is pretty rare, newer MX500s do not have this. There may also have been a firmware update; a secure erase after may help, too.

 

well, i guess SSDs work in mysterious ways..............