At what percentage remaining should you replace an SSD?

I assume I have nothing to worry about yet but as the title states, I have a 2TB SSD that I got pre price apocalypse and according to Crystal Disk Info it has 90% Of life remaining.

It was first used as an OS and data (Windows 11 with two partitions) drive in my old laptop (Dell Latitude 5511) so that is probably the reason for the high write count as well as I accidently deleted the wrong partition (Luckily I had a backup that was still 98% current) when I went to use it as a data drive in my HP EliteDesk 800 G6 Desktop Mini I now have a separate drive dedicated to the OS as that PC has two M.2 NVMe slots!

So when should I start getting concerned that this SSD is going to fail on me?

Crystal Disk Info showing the SSD in question


Pre Price apocalypse Amazon order details

Does anyone have a 2TB NVMe with DRAM that you can gift me LoL!

in a few years.
no.

Once it drops below 20% move it to a less active role. Keep in mind that a drive at 0% could last another 10 years, and a drive at 100% can fail the same day. It is simply a best guess by the software based upon your usage.

mwroobel said:

Once it drops below 20% move it to a less active role. Keep in mind that a drive at 0% could last another 10 years, and a drive at 100% can fail the same day. It is simply a best guess by the software based upon your usage.

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+1

I have a 2TB SN770 with 95+ health die on me last week. Bought it used and WD SN check shows "not found contact WD."

kyang357 said:

Bought it used and WD SN check shows "not found contact WD."

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Damn that sucks dude!

Maybe it was already a warranty replacement that was sold to you or perhaps it was an OEM only channel drive?

With those you are supposed to contact the OEM (Dell HP Lenovo Acer ETC) and Western Digital will not warranty the drive or perhaps the Serial Number was typed incorrectly?

I have a barcode scanner so I can scan the barcode on the drive to so no chance of a typo, that is unless I scan the wrong barcode on the drive LoL either way that is a sucky situation!

Format _C: said:

With those you are supposed to contact the OEM (Dell HP Lenovo Acer ETC) and Western Digital will not warranty the drive or perhaps the Serial Number was typed incorrectly?

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It's correct, I think it's from an system integrator. I might be wrong but I don't think OEM uses retail drives.

kyang357 said:

It's correct, I think it's from an system integrator. I might be wrong but I don't think OEM uses retail drives.

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Depends on when and the OEM. Some smaller builders/resellers are sourcing whatever they can, wherever they can get it.

Format _C: said:

it has 90% Of life remaining.

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It's trash. Send it to me for disposal

Of all the SSDs I've had trouble with, none showed very much info in SMART, certainly the lifetime remaining was never low. I did have one or two that had throughput problems while they were doing reallocation ... they'd probably have been fine if we let them settle down, but it was in managed hosting and they were unusable while it was happening, so we got them swapped for drives that we liked better.

toast0 said:

It's trash. Send it to me for disposal

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Send me a new one with DRAM cache and I will gladly send it to you LoL!