Saving an old SSD

[Guest]

So I got hold of an old SSD that has taken a lot of abuse over its lifespan (which I think is about a year as its a Crucial M4 128GB) I figured its speeds may not be as good as new but I was suprised at just how bad they are with it offering no performance increase over a standard HDD when loading games (I have a seperate boot drive thats not so damaged and ruined) whats more it appeared to be causing some wierd faults in games where they would eaither crash due to vital files not loading or things like characters would just not show up.

 

So I was wondering is there a way to try and revive an SSD so to speak, this thing was on its way out anyway but if I could somehow save it and get it working as a extra drive to store a few frequently played games that would be cool.

 

I heard using DiskPart and the "Clean All" command works as it overwrites everything with 0s, is this true? I thought these drives had a limited write cycle.

[WoodenMarker]

The "limited life cycles" are quite long. 

Just try wiping the ssd with disk management. It's probably fine.

[Guest]

The "limited life cycles" are quite long. 

Just try wiping the ssd with disk management. It's probably fine.

Ok, from what I understand the drive had Windows installed on it and wiped 3 times, before I put it in my machine I unplugged all my drives and using a Windows 7 disk booted into Windows Installer and wiped it using the clicky interface,

[91Chris]

I assume you're on Windows... Is there not a utility that can tell you the health of your disks?

[WoodenMarker]

Ok, from what I understand the drive had Windows installed on it and wiped 3 times, before I put it in my machine I unplugged all my drives and using a Windows 7 disk booted into Windows Installer and wiped it using the clicky interface,

Have you benchmarked the ssd to confirm the speeds?

[Guest]

AS SSD Benchmark

 

                          Read                     Write

Seq                   478.56mb/s            199.81mb/s

4K                     26.01mb/s              72.49mb/s

4K-64Thrd        274.89mb/s            158.20mb/s

Acc.Time           0.081ms                 0.367ms

 

SCORE                349                        251

                                          773

 

That seams about average for this drive, but if thats the case why is it so slow in games and also why was it so slow booting Windows on the PC it got removed from?