Extend Your SSD’s Lifespan - SSD Health Tips - DIY in 5 Ep 175 

Sorry use a better OS if you want support.

@@silvy7394 Windows 11 is better than Linux? LMAO it’s actually the other way around I have no problem using Linux while I get a BSOD on Windows 11 a lot

The Kingston SSD Manager is not compatible with Mac OS or Linux distributions at the current moment but we will notate your request. Thank you. kings.tn/3cbZMEU

@@alpzepta Says the guy crying in the comments about no software support because of his "superior" OS

There are Linux Utilities to check HDD/SDD health. Linux Mint has one preinstalled

I can't 😳🥴🥵🤤

I Just spent a fortune on 2tb ssd and now I'm hearing my hdd will be still be responsible for keeping most of my stuff.

Appreciate your honesty

😂😂

Never used Kingston SSD's but their RAM has never failed me in all the decades I've been using it. For SSD's I don't use consumer-grade ones, & opt for high-end "professional" enterprise/datacenter-class pricier ones that will last forever for a gamer & home-user.

We can't tell why this is without objective data. It might be because more people are buying them compared to other brands. A company that sells 10,000,000 drives will have more drives fail than a company that sells 1,000,000 drives for example due to sheer volume alone. Not defending Kingston here, just giving some perspective.

Does server ssds have any other major differences between the consumer one beside their endurances like tbw or mtbf? Like is there any additional configuration or things we must do to operate it like a consumer ssd?​@@dystopia-usa

I've had a Micron 250GB die on my but my Kingston 2.5" 120GB lives on in an old laptop

Awesome to hear, thanks for your comment!

yeah i have never had a problem with the hardware aspect of an ssd.

I have kingston a400 120gb ,since last year and i have 86% health..

@@Miladin. As a boot drive right? I don't write huge files like games and videos to SSD. I leave that to my HDD.

Well ssd-s arent for long term storage, but for runnig operating systems and applications anyway. (atleast for normal people, rich people can buy them bulk if they want it)

@Steve Mar. I have had several fail with no warning at all.

@Steve Mar. If i need backups (what im doing from my most important files every week) im gonna using hdds. And magnetic tapes? Pssst, that's baby sh*t, i want 5D optical data storage crystals for backups right now!

simpy :)

yes. especially for long term.

@@Delgen1951 for images & videos need space more than speed

oddly, i mostly encounter actual led failures (detached bondwires causing chaotic flickering and soon complete death)

Hmmm

Yes, more system RAM, it is less likely SSD will operate as virtual memory

Not exactly what he meant DRAM cache on SSD is not the same as system RAM.. but having more system RAM should help avoid SSD as paging

True

> "it has a predicted 97 years lifetime…" Solar cycle years or Moon cycle years?

@@andrewkamoha4666 Uh, solar seems to be right…😂

@@john-or9cf Check for internationalization conflicts. Some countries use lunar calendar as default.

Well, if it lives beyond that 97 year prediction don't forget to write and thank them!

@@r1273m 😂😂. Kinda think 97 is waaaay more than what I have left!

Awesome to hear, and thanks for the feedback. To make sure your SSD's health and firmware are up to date, please make sure to download our SSD Manager on the PC's the A400's are installed in/ For more info please vist our site here: kings.tn/47sNpeW

Hi Paul, as a general overview, we use controllers utilizing advanced wear leveling technology, which distributes the number of P/E cycles (program/erase) across the flash memory evenly. For more information please visit our site here: kings.tn/3JhU3cR

horndog

kinda makes you question why i would want to switch from an hdd if buying a 2 TB drive means i can only really use 1 TB of it.

iirc, the numbers are the same as an hdd. Keep about 15% free.

@@Mr1Tanker thanks

Hi there, it is very unfortunate that you had that experience with our products. Did you reach out to our Tech Support for help with troubleshooting your parts and check your Warranty? If not and you still have the parts in hand, please drop us a line here: kings.tn/3PjYDt7

I’m using Kingston Products even since before the host of this show was born - never had any Problems. I guess you had a strain of bad luck then.

The efficiency decreases over time

Hello, Yes the ssd will eventually hit its end of life, It means it has reached it total bytes written and will eventually need to be replaced. It is the nature of all solid state volumes.

you can sometimes fix it with a little bit of soldering. It's 50/50.

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Why? 🤔

@@LeeMooEez Because by doing this the ssd writes between the both partitions...Windows partition always fluctuates in capacity,writes and clean itself because of the windows updates and temp files and so on....

When you install Windows to an SSD, it creates AT LEAST 3 partitions. An EFI partition, a MSR partition and a primary partition. And no, partitions don't randomly expand and shrink all the time, that's simply absurd.

@@Melody666 I meant the free space from C partition (for example I have a 970 Evo Plus 500Gb and the free space fluctuates between 346-357gb once at a few days) and I also meant "Do not create manual partitions for a ssd" except the recovery ones witch create automatically,and u don t use them and are invissible in "This PC"

@@andreib.1445 Nah, got the c partition and other one for games. I always leave free space both of them.

Not by much, there will be ~1GB written on 1TB SSD, so you can theoretically do it on daily basis, but once or twice a week should be fine.

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it should be automatic(on windows at least). Better not mess with it. And do NOT defragment ssd ever.

Hi there sorry to hear you are having issues with our drive. Were you able to verify that issue on a different system? If so, please visit our site and chat with our Tech Support: kings.tn/3oPXMoT

Thats literally useless

There’s heatsink but fan is useless

SSDs will get hot, if you write to them for, perhaps, ½hour or longer without rest. But that is not too bad. If you are doing something that writes to the SSD for hours and hours, without rest, then all the SSD needs is a light breeze to carry away its heat. If you have a fan in your case, and its air flows across the SSD, then your SSD will never get hot.

Hello there and thank you for you're comment,. If it is a Kingston SSD, just know we make our products with quality materials to ensure the end user’s safety as our top priority. We also comply to the California Proposition 65 which you can learn more about here kings.tn/3LqXHUB

don't ever force defrag on a ssd, just select optimize thru a 3rd party app, especially for operating systems prior to windows 7

You just described , how "overprovisioning" works. Yes, you could just watch out not to fill you SSD to >95% (or >90% for system drive) OR just leave 5% non-partitioned space on it. Samsung Magician suggests between 1 and 10% for overprovisioning, don't know about kingston tools.

@@Wlad1 cool thx

Hi Ahmed if this happened to one of our drives, how did you check the status of the SSD? If you haven't checked it for firmware status with our SSD Manager please download it here: kings.tn/3GcdOSM If you need further assistance with our product, please visit our support site here: kings.tn/3sM49Pv Thank you.

Hello Chris thank you for your comment. As a general overview, we use controllers utilizing advanced wear leveling technology, which distributes the number of P/E cycles (program/erase) across the flash memory evenly. For more information please visit our site here: kings.tn/3JhU3cR

> "UPS sounds expensive" Notebook => new battery ?? Desktop => DIY UPS ???

the one shown is around 60-70 bucks on amazon

Like any other product, a UPS price ranges from $50 to $100,000 or more. There are UPSs that can run a small town. There are basically 3 types of UPSs: 1) Standby 2) Line Interactive 3) On-Line #1 is the cheapest. It is basically a bucket of batteries. The UPS will switch to the batteries of you have a blackout, or if the power drops very low. It will probably offer basic surge suppression. It will allow you to gracefully shut down your computer if you have a blackout, and will keep your computer from crashing if the power goes out for ½ a second. #2 will boost or trim the power, if the power from the utility company is outside of the range it should be in. This level of UPS will probably offer much better surge suppression. It will be much better choice, compared to #1. #3 is the holy grail of clean and reliable power delivery. On this level, the UPS takes the A/C power from your wall, converts it to D/C power, and then converts that D/C power back to A/C power (dual conversion). This means that your computer will never see the power from your utility company. Your computer will always be fed newly generated power from your UPS. To perform the dual conversion, between 5% to 10% of your power will be lost, in order for the UPS to perform the dual conversion. So your electric bill will go up. And the UPS will be slightly noisy, because it needs a fan to keep itself cool while doing the dual conversion. This level of UPS will also offer the highest surge suppression. Large computer companies, such as Microsoft, eBay, Google, etc, use the #3. But they do make ones for personal use. What else is there to consider?: How much power do you need your UPS to produce if it goes to its battery (for example, in a blackout)? If you need only 250 watts, then they will not cost as much as one that can produce 1500 watts or more. Also, how long will you want the UPS to be able to run during a blackout, before its rechargeable batteries are drained? Bigger, longer lasting batteries will cost more. I use a model by APC: BN1500M2 It fits #2's description. Lastly, since a UPS has batteries, you will have to replace the batteries every 4 or 5 years (more often if it has cheap batteries). When you take ownership of your UPS, check the date of the manufacturing of the batteries. If they are older than 6 months, then consider returning it. Batteries go bad over time, regardless of whether or not they are sitting idle or being recharged. Whether replacing a car battery, or a UPS battery, I draw the line at 6 months.

@@NoEgg4u after reading all this, now I want Harddrive.

@@NoEgg4u Actually super appreciate your comment here. My main take-away from this presentation was "I am getting a UPS for my new computer coming soon". Thank you for this

Hello we measure our consumer SSDs on TBW (Total Bytes Written) and our Data Center SSDs on Drives Writes Per Day (DWPD). For more info please visit our website: kings.tn/3c5lASu

@@kingston you could have just given a flat short answer, this is just pushing through traffic to your site, pretty shameful man.

@@kingston did not answer "Sudhansu Sekhar Sahu's" question. The answer is infinite. If there is a limit, no one has ever reached it. I challenge Kingston to claim otherwise, and it is bizarre that they dodged your question. "Reads" take no toll on SSDs. And when it comes to "Writes", you can ignore the TBW value, because any drive (without a defect) will be able to write 10x (or more) than the TBW value, with no performance issues. The only issue with the TBW value is that the manufacturer uses it as an excuse to end your warranty when you hit that number (even though the the amount that you used the drive played zero role in the drive failing).

Thats not why you're here

Was it vaccinated? Was it Pfizer, Moderna, or Janssen? Was it wearing a mask? Was it network distancing?

backup???