how to know when to replace ssd?

[mplayerMuPDF]

Hi,
I still on all sata ssd's
I've seen no reason to go m.2 yet except looking at the WD black 1tb for 110.us I had to double check that bad boy
Hell the 500gb perfect for os was only 70.us

M.2 SSDs can be SATA too though. Mine is (Toshiba OEM SSD I bought used on eBay). Another, more well-known, example would be the M.2 version of the 860 Evo, which I used to have in a previous laptop that had an M.2 slot (that only supported SATA; my X470GTQ supports both SATA and NVMe).

"Team L7 evo" ....?

Never heared of it.

The drive doesn't even show how many writes it had in Crystal Disk Info.

Personally I buy SSD drives from reputable brands.
And these drives show important info in tools like Crystal Disk Info.

I would definitely not buy an SSD from some random brand. There is no reason to these days. There are so many reputable brands out there: Samsung, Crucial (Micron), Western Digital/Sandisk, Kioxia (hard to get in North America though), Transcend and Seagate.

 

[P4-630]

Do you really need that much storage for the OS? My OS SSD partition is only 109GiB of which 57.9 GiB are free.

More free space the better for an SSD, also to keep up the speed and longer life.
(overprovisioning)

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
That and there are a limited amount of m.2 slots and pci-e lanes so might as well get as large as you can afford.

 

[AleXXX666]

Do you really need that much storage for the OS? My OS SSD partition is only 109GiB of which 57.9 GiB are free.


It's nice to not have to worry about problematic SATA data or power cables. I had to use dielectric grease on all my SATA cables because the humidity is so bad here it causes problems (i.e. disappearing SSD's and HDD's) if I don't.

well, i have my 1 TB splitted still "classically" for OS + games but i'm thinking why i need this mess if i don't care about data in os drive and games, because all the data i need is on the physical separate disk lol
so it's better to have large one storage than mess with partitions or even separate drives if you don't care about some stuff.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep if you run out of m.2 slots you can always pick up a pci-e m.2 card and put the larger m.2's on it.

 

[jsfitz54]

so i have my C disk on a SSD and its starting to show trouble.. i think
like suddenly cant acses files on it or when shutting down taking a long time also when booting up it gets stuck in windows loop
it also showed once a old NTFS reparing msdos looking thing when starting up tryng to fix a sector or something ( < this was in the past on same disk)
after fiew restarts it goes on while i also need to take out every other disk in the system ( sata devices)
but i got it working now i wonder for how long? time to replace it??? or a differend issue? disk is from 2018 i think
240gb team evo disk

right now im making a backup of the ssd. allready had. just want the lates version i have

From a CMD (command prompt) when have you tried to run these commands 1 at a time until complete, that you can copy and paste:
I like to use Windows PowerShell, as ADMINISTRATOR.

sfc /scannow

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase