He says defrag was running and the disk usage was 100%. Maybe Biostar did something funky and the drives isn't recognized as a SSD?
The tool is called defrag, so even when it runs trim it shows as defrag in tsk. Could be a drive not in the QVL, and uefi see's a hdd.
Even if it did run defrag, it only lessens because of write cycles, it looked like the drive was bad, but not because of dead cells due to life writes.
But a 70% full drive running defrag for a year isn't good, lol.
Let's say you're right. Is there a way to set that parameter manually, i.e force trim? (process, not functionality)
Or, what will the Defragmenter/Optimizer do if it's not recognizing it as an SSD? All speculating here, but I doubt Windows would enable TRIM if the it didn't recognize it as an SSD..
Is trim even enabled?
Methods for how to Run Trim Command for SSD in Windows 10 to check, enable, and disable this feature to improves the performance of Solid state drive.
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Edit: I know it's a long shot.
Sorry to cut in, but most drives have trim written in firmware so even if win doesn't run trim, when the pc is off it runs GC.
CMD as admin ( fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify ) 0= trim is enabled and win see's ssd, 1- trim disabled.
SSD FRESH, has a run trim along with a few other programs.
I checked new biostar ssd an don't see anything about their GC, but they must have it, as for older, no clue.
WHEA is often CPU voltage related for overclocking, but in this case if programs are reporting your SSD is "bad" from its SMART data - then yeah, thats a dying SSD sadly
odiebug: wasnt SSD-Z discontinued years ago?
Yep, my bad, might still work, still has DL's all over just not updated. I don't know if it will see his drive, all my ssd's use magician and years an years ago they all had a mfg tool before I went all samsung.
