My four year old laptop uses a M.2 NVMe SSD drive.
The HW Info app tells me that the device health of the drive is 43%. The last time I checked a few months ago it was around 55%.
Do these percentages suggest that I really ought to replace the drive pronto or am I safe enough to continue to use it for another few months?
FWIW I use Paragon Backup and Recovery to clone the whole drive once a month onto an external hard drive.
If its windows do a disk manager optimise as that is a TRIM which extends the life.
Actually is this the app from the drive maker? if so it should include the trim/deallocate stuff by default so if it’s dropping off that quickly I’d buy a new one.
Thanks for your reply. I’ve had a look and apparently my windows is set up to optimise the drive weekly. It was last retrimmed three days ago and the status is ok. I guess that means 43% health is as good as it gets just now.
No. It’s just a useful app for all aspects of HW analysis.
The rate of decline is what’s worrying me. Hence my question. Am I right in thinking you would advise me to change the drive asap?
Use it till it dies as long as you backup important stuff as well as the Paragon thing.
Thanks Chris. Much appreciated. In addition to Paragon, the files I use regularly are kept in my Dropbox so I think I’m pretty well covered.
Given the insane cheap cost of decent SSD’s these days, I’d suggest just replacing any drive that is reporting back health stats like that. It just isn’t worth the lost data!
