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"Health" in the HWinfo is actually your Drive Wear Levelling Count in Samsung Magician.

The "Health" of the SSD is 100%. The "age/lifespan" is at 83%.

 

So the drive seems fine, but is now a little older. Not a lot older. But just a little. Mine is second hand, had a high use for the 6 months before I bought it, and is still 98%... so yours is measuring a couple of years older, and still has another 83% before it gets "bad". [edit] As @Zagna said, 20 years left! :D [/edit]

 

Posting a full list of HWinfo (minus serial number and private data!) would show if HWinfo is showing the wrong information.

 

Hope this helps! :)

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Hello everybody,

 

I scrolled down through hwinfo and saw that my boot drive, a Samsung 840 Evo 120GB from 2012 or 2013, has 83% health status.

My one year old MX300 500GB and WD Black 2TB are both still at 100%.

 

So should I be concerned about it? Or think about a replacement?

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id say replace it

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7 minutes ago, racer243l said:

Hello everybody,

 

I scrolled down through hwinfo and saw that my boot drive, a Samsung 840 Evo 120GB from 2012 or 2013, has 83% health status.

My one year old MX300 500GB and WD Black 2TB are both still at 100%.

 

So should I be concerned about it? Or think about a replacement?

Buy a new one for the OS, you could always use the old one for quick game storage

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6 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

id say replace it

Thanks.

7 minutes ago, TechyBen said:

Post full stats from Samsung Magician.

I downloaded and installed it, what do you want to see or how do I post it?

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Out of curiosity, how many hours on time and how many GB writes has the drive had?

120GB SSDs are relatively cheap these days, so if you value the data stored on it more than the cost of replacing the drive, then yes I would recommend replacing it.

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4 minutes ago, racer243l said:

Thanks.

I downloaded and installed it, what do you want to see or how do I post it?

Open it. First thing it should show is "Drive Condition". What does it say?

"S.M.A.R.T." button will give you full details. You may need to scroll down to copy the whole list.

For example:

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5 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Out of curiosity, how many hours on time and how many GB writes has the drive had?

120GB SSDs are relatively cheap these days, so if you value the data stored on it more than the cost of replacing the drive, then yes I would recommend replacing it.

See below

3 minutes ago, TechyBen said:

Open it. First thing it should show is "Drive Condition". What does it say?

"S.M.A.R.T." button will give you full details. You may need to scroll down to copy the whole list.

For example:

ssdstats.jpg.fb52d9dfb8a662ad6ecaf8e96ab63f3d.jpg

Drive Condition is "Good".

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"Health" in the HWinfo is actually your Drive Wear Levelling Count in Samsung Magician.

The "Health" of the SSD is 100%. The "age/lifespan" is at 83%.

 

So the drive seems fine, but is now a little older. Not a lot older. But just a little. Mine is second hand, had a high use for the 6 months before I bought it, and is still 98%... so yours is measuring a couple of years older, and still has another 83% before it gets "bad". [edit] As @Zagna said, 20 years left! :D [/edit]

 

Posting a full list of HWinfo (minus serial number and private data!) would show if HWinfo is showing the wrong information.

 

Hope this helps! :)

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5 minutes ago, TechyBen said:

"Health" in the HWinfo is actually your Drive Wear Levelling Count in Samsung Magician.

The "Health" of the SSD is 100%. The "age/lifespan" is at 83%.

 

So the drive seems fine, but is now a little older. Not a lot older. But just a little. Mine is second hand, had a high use for the 6 months before I bought it, and is still 98%... so yours is measuring a couple of years older, and still has another 83% before it gets "bad".

 

Posting a full list of HWinfo (minus serial number and private data!) would show if HWinfo is showing the wrong information.

 

Hope this helps! :)

Alright, I didn´t know it works that way, thanks a lot! :)

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Yeah, I don't see anywhere it saying the drive is bad health. :P

Hope all is good now!

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14 minutes ago, TechyBen said:

Yeah, I don't see anywhere it saying the drive is bad health. :P

Hope all is good now!

Puh, that really helped me, thanks a lot:D

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Sorry to bump an old thread, but I thought I would add my two cents in given that I am losing about 2% each year and I only have 5.5TB of writes. Like with the OP, everything else seems fine.

 

This is my first experience with SSD/NVMe drives and it's concerning to see these values decline whilst HDD health remains at 100%.

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