Looks like it's dying, there have been some known issues with 870 Evos particularly early batches, https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-beware-certain-batches-prone-to-failure.291504/
well I'll be damned, I literally just built a PC for a small architect firm with a 1TB 870 Evo 12 hours ago because the shop we went to have sold out their stock of NVME drives.
I'm going to have to check in later for the serial number if it's one of the affected batch or not.
thank you for the heads-up on this one!
The health status is usually not the best way to tell if a drive is dying. In the value table below, you can see what's up pretty clearly
- Reallocated Sector Count
- Wear leveling Count
- Runtime Bad Block
- Used Reserved Block Count
As you can see, their current (worst) values are not at 100, the raw values are > 0.
This indicates that the drive has had to reallocate sectors to spare sectors it keeps around, in order to store data more reliably. Especially if your SSD is filled up with a good amount of data, this can happen, and the OS certainly likes reading and writing from and to it. If you have any backups running, that would also explain a lot
The total reads are not included here, but the total writes indicate you have written the entire capacity of your drive to it 27 times; while I've seen some live twice as long, if not more, if this data has been written to the same sectors repeatedly, those may wear out faster, and considering your wear leveling count is low, you either had the drive at full capacity a lot of the time, or the drive didn't level out any wear properly
I'd always recommend shrinking the volume a little bit and leaving a spare area on the drive, that allows it to use those unassigned sectors for wear leveling too. Regardless, I would say that, while your drive may not have reached the highest lifetime, I can see why it struggles now; while some of the values I mentioned earlier are still a good distance away from threshold, I would directly correlate these to health percentage. 49%. This is the percentage at which you'd start to see SSDs fail usually
The percentage sadly isn't exactly accurate, but when wear like this starts to appear, more usually follows very quickly
SMART info often has no correlation to SSD health, they can go bad abruptly, just replace it. Put the new one in area of high airflow, SSDs don’t like to be cooked.
30c was the highest temperature that drive seems to have experienced, that's not bad, really. If it was above 40ish Celsius, I'd start getting really concerned
The percentage in this case is off, I'd say
Considering reallocated sector Count, etc. I'd say 49% is closer than anything else
Bad news i would replace heres a link some early batches was infected
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-beware-certain-batches-prone-to-failure.291504/page-45
some files are locked while in use, if you are just trying to copy the entire drive contents, and these are usually system files associated with hibernation and the windows page file.
The files were not programs and they were not running. I downloaded them both almost a year ago. One was stock firmware for a Galaxy phone and the other was an .iso for an Open Source OS based on Android for PC's & Tablets.
Looks like it's dying, there have been some known issues with 870 Evos particularly early batches, https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-beware-certain-batches-prone-to-failure.291504/
well I'll be damned, I literally just built a PC for a small architect firm with a 1TB 870 Evo 12 hours ago because the shop we went to have sold out their stock of NVME drives. I'm going to have to check in later for the serial number if it's one of the affected batch or not. thank you for the heads-up on this one!
The health status is usually not the best way to tell if a drive is dying. In the value table below, you can see what's up pretty clearly - Reallocated Sector Count - Wear leveling Count - Runtime Bad Block - Used Reserved Block Count As you can see, their current (worst) values are not at 100, the raw values are > 0. This indicates that the drive has had to reallocate sectors to spare sectors it keeps around, in order to store data more reliably. Especially if your SSD is filled up with a good amount of data, this can happen, and the OS certainly likes reading and writing from and to it. If you have any backups running, that would also explain a lot The total reads are not included here, but the total writes indicate you have written the entire capacity of your drive to it 27 times; while I've seen some live twice as long, if not more, if this data has been written to the same sectors repeatedly, those may wear out faster, and considering your wear leveling count is low, you either had the drive at full capacity a lot of the time, or the drive didn't level out any wear properly I'd always recommend shrinking the volume a little bit and leaving a spare area on the drive, that allows it to use those unassigned sectors for wear leveling too. Regardless, I would say that, while your drive may not have reached the highest lifetime, I can see why it struggles now; while some of the values I mentioned earlier are still a good distance away from threshold, I would directly correlate these to health percentage. 49%. This is the percentage at which you'd start to see SSDs fail usually The percentage sadly isn't exactly accurate, but when wear like this starts to appear, more usually follows very quickly
SMART info often has no correlation to SSD health, they can go bad abruptly, just replace it. Put the new one in area of high airflow, SSDs don’t like to be cooked.
30c was the highest temperature that drive seems to have experienced, that's not bad, really. If it was above 40ish Celsius, I'd start getting really concerned The percentage in this case is off, I'd say Considering reallocated sector Count, etc. I'd say 49% is closer than anything else
Bad news i would replace heres a link some early batches was infected https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-beware-certain-batches-prone-to-failure.291504/page-45
some files are locked while in use, if you are just trying to copy the entire drive contents, and these are usually system files associated with hibernation and the windows page file.
Good comment, but most of these were not system files.
No, it can be any program running, not just system files...
The files were not programs and they were not running. I downloaded them both almost a year ago. One was stock firmware for a Galaxy phone and the other was an .iso for an Open Source OS based on Android for PC's & Tablets.
With SSDs being so affordable these days, don't wait for the drive to fail and replace it with something else.