ccleaner destroyed my ssd

[Lanx]

read about ccleaners "wipe free space" feature decided to try it on my raid0/30g. for some reason my amd raid kept on say i had lots of interrupt errors as this was happening and my performance was degraded to unusable.
my seq writes went from 180 to 4! and since it took that long to test my seq reads went from 320 to barely 70

i found out i had 2gigs free all of a sudden, i guess ccleaner just writes to all the free space to one big 30gig file (i had 30gigs free) except it didn't delete it.

so i delete that big 30g file and was pondering if i should reformat again, then just thought maybe the drive will fix itself. and left it on overnite (letting GC work) and sure enough it did.

So lesson learned 2 things, ccleaner doesn't work for me, and GC(garbage collection) really works(i have raid so trim doesn't work)

 

[Red Squirrel]

SSDs have limited writes, I would assume a delete also counts as a write. It probably just happened to hit the limit.

 

[Biznatch]

lol there is no way he hit the limit on writes. You could try a reformat and and see what that does.

 

[SR45]

I read on a few SSD forums, and was told numerous times that using "wipe free space" with ccleaner is a BIG no, no for SSD's. Guess you did not get the memo.

 

[Lanx]

no i'm just letting GC do it's job, every few hours it seems to improve performance, i'm back to 320/280 read/write seq, but my 4k scores are still being worked on.