Might have my first SSD going bad

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McClintoc

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I turned on my PC just now and a little message popped up (Windows 11) in the lower right corner of my screen saying a storage drive requires my attention. I clicked the message and this came up:

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This is the storage drive in my main gaming rig. I had to go through my Amazon order history to find it but I bought this back in July 2018 so it's over 5 years old. My question is, is the Windows warning reliable? Has anyone had this message pop up then the drive fail a short time later?
 
I've never seen a SMART pre-failure warning for an SSD. I would assume it's accurate and you should back up / transfer as soon as practical.

In my experience, failing SSDs usually just disappear from the bus. According to legend, failing SSDs should turn read-only, but I've nevee seen that happen. For spinning drives, pre-failure warnings other than for old age are pretty spot on, although often they warn late: I would replace a spinning drive based on the raw SMART metrics before the drive declares itself failed, but when it triggers, it's definitely a good idea to move any remaining data.

After you sort out your backup situatuon, I'd run CrystalDiskInfo or something to get the detailed info, and post us a screenshot. The drive health info windows shows makes it look like a healthy drive, so I dunno.
 
HD Sentinel is better for SMART data than CrystalDiskInfo if you're looking to see what your SMART results are.
 
Ok, I transferred all the stuff on the (failing) storage drive over the main OS drive. The failing drive has just shy of 250 GB of stuff on it and I have just over 500 GB free on the OS drive so I am good there. I just ordered a 1 TB WD Black Gen 4. Should be here tomorrow.
 
One SSD failed on me.

Once I stupidly bent the pins on 1 TB SSD drive. I "failed" the drive. No way to fix it, for what the drive is worth now.
 
toast0 said:
I've never seen a SMART pre-failure warning for an SSD
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Me either, and I have some Gen 3 drives that are way older than 5 yrs, neveranottaproblemo :)
McClintoc said:
I just ordered a 1 TB WD Black Gen 4. Should be here tomorrow.
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Congrats, you will like this drive, as it is one of the fastest around....although I would have (& did recently) went with the 2TB or even 4TB models, but that's just me, since I have a buttload of data to store :)
 
dogDAbone said:
Me either, and I have some Gen 3 drives that are way older than 5 yrs, neveranottaproblemo :)

Congrats, you will like this drive, as it is one of the fastest around....although I would have (& did recently) went with the 2TB or even 4TB models, but that's just me, since I have a buttload of data to store :)
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My main rig in question has a 2 TB Pioneer nvme drive as the OS drive and a 500 GB WD nvme storage drive which is the failing one. The OS drive is a little over 3 years old. When it starts to fail I'll replace it with a 4 TB WD Black.
 
Days ago, I had a Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SATA SSD, do the whole read error and not pass SMART test thing (less than a year old).... I RMA'd... waiting for my "new" one.
 
I had a less than one year old silicon power nvme die a couple months ago. It started acting funny and then just wouldn't boot. Luckily it was on my wife's machine so all that was lost was Amazon browsing history.
 
toast0 said:
I've never seen a SMART pre-failure warning for an SSD. I would assume it's accurate and you should back up / transfer as soon as practical.

In my experience, failing SSDs usually just disappear from the bus.
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Ditto, had an early Crucial SSD go bad it just died with no warning. My young, at the time, son's first PC purchase. Crucial wanted to give him a prorated warranty replacement of 20% off his next SSD purchase. I replied and gave them the ol' "I have been using Crucial memory since back in the day and when he asked if I thought the extra cost of Crucial was worth it, I recommended it based on your warranty, so now you're going to let his first PC purchase be a bad choice?" (Longer and more elegant with the other brand name). They gave him a replacement for no cost, it hasn't failed.
 
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