I hooked up a brand new fresh out of the package MX500 and confirmed that the Average Block Erase Count does in fact start at 100. Win-7 pro x3 and Linux Cinnamon 20.2x2 & win-10 & 11pro x3 Trident-Z 3600C16 4x8gb & Trident-Z Royal 4000c16 2x16gb & Trident-Z 3200c14 4x8gbġ080ti FTW3 & Titan Xp & evga 980ti gamingĩ70 evo plus 500gb & 970 evo 500gb many sammy 2.5' ssd's and WD BLK hdd'sġ-AOC G2460PG 24'G-Sync 144Hz/ 2nd 1-ASUS VG248QE 24'/ 3rd LG 43' seriesĭ450 second floor for 2nd rad x2/ Cherry Entertainment center on Test benchīuilt in Realtek x2 with 2-Insignia 2.0 sound bars & 1-LG sound barĮVGA 1200P2 & 1000P2 with APC AX1500 & 850P2 with CyberPower-GX1325U & 750P2 X299 Rampage VI Apex & z490 Maximus XII Apex & x99 Sabertoothĭ5 combo/280 GTX/ VRM water block copper/280 GTX/ D5 Top/Optimus sigV2/TitanXp/Mora 360x2 Has anyone else noticed rapid erase cycles on MX500s?ĩ940x w/Optimus SigV2 & 10900k w/Optimus Foundation & 5930k w/Noctua D15

I do think the total host writes is 'after' amplification, so I think the issue seems to be poor wear levelling algorithm. The drive is manually overprovisioned by 10%, in addition the partitions combined are about 60% utilised. This means either write amplification approximately 25x which seems very high (dont think this is the case I believe the SMART writes are 'after' amplification), or the wear levelling algorithm is poor. Total host writes 2038 GB (roughly 4x drive capacity)Īverage block erase count 100 (almost one a day) Power on hours 3227 (134 days) (laptop is on 24/7) Here is the data as provided by crystal diskinfo. Last month two were under half a GB, one was 5GB.

The full backups are typically around 16GB compressed, incremental is highly variable, of the 3 done this month, two are under half a GB, the other one is 4GB. Usually one done before every windows update (once a month) and automated ones once a week, only one full backup is made per month, the rest are incremental. It does however have backups of the OS made on the second partition.

The 94% health took me by surprise, as the SSD is not even half a year old, and the laptop is just running windows, no games, no large downloads, not even web browsing. So I decided to open up crystal diskinfo on my laptop, I replaced the SSD with a brand new 500 GB MX500 earlier this year.

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