MX500 Drive Health?

[juanyp90]

I got an mx500 directly from amazon not third party about 2 years and a half ago and I noticed that my drive health is 72% even though I have only 15TBW which makes up 85% of the drive's total 100TBW. I am running firmware version M3CR043 which to my knowledge is the 2nd newest firmware and the newest has very little fixes. Crystaldiskinfo, hwinfo all show the same details. My paging size is 3.5gb. Average temps are 26 degrees celsius. Finally,my question is should I RMA this drive?

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[massaker]

should I RMA this drive?

But why? On what grounds?

firmware version M3CR043 which to my knowledge is the 2nd newest firmware

M3CR043/M3CR044 -> M3CR045 -> M3CR046

2 years and a half ago and I noticed that my drive health is 72% even though I have only 15TBW which makes up 85% of the drive's total 100TBW

Your drive is in good condition for 2,5 y.o. one. You have a 5-year guarantee, so it will probably still have about 50% left at the end.
Current attributes "01", "05", "AB", "AC", "BB", "C4" -> all @ ZERO -> there is no reason for RMA.
You have 14 TiB Host Writes and 368 ABEC (Micron B47R madia-grade NAND in this SSD is specified @ 1300 P/E-cycles, so you used 368 of 1300 = 28,3% of cycles),
WA (write amplification) is about 3,73x = quite high, but nothing unusual if space utilisation is >80-90% and many small files are written (typical OS-drive usecase).

 

[SPDIF]

Moreover they will just send you back this drive, because there's nothing wrong with it. They will never accept it even to RMA it.

 

[chrcoluk]

Looks like same issue my MX 500s have, rapid erase cycles.

That wont get a RMA swap, they not going to replace just from high wear.

 

[juanyp90]

Looks like same issue my MX 500s have, rapid erase cycles.

I'm confused on why my mx500 has high rapid erase cycles if I max my drive out at 25% free

WA (write amplification) is about 3,73x = quite high, but nothing unusual if space utilisation is >80-90% and many small files are written (typical OS-drive usecase).

Even at 25% free is this normal? It is my main boot drive for windows 10.

 

[SomeOne99h]

Go to: Function > Advanced Feature > Raw Values > 10 [DEC]
This will show you actual values in decimal.

 

[SPDIF]

Well don't forget you have the lowest grade SSD installed from these popular and cheap SSD. It should work for some years more without problem. You can take a look with HDSentinel program to see what it says about the life. It's better then CrystalDiskInfo. You can download a free sample copy from their website.

 

[Jism]

You can slow the rate down by partitioning a bit less then the actual size of the drive.

I think by default i always snoop 20% off for durability.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

A couple of entries suggest a SATA communication issue. Have you tried another SATA cable?

Attributes B7 and C7 in Crystal Disk Info.

 

[AsRock]

Looks like same issue my MX 500s have, rapid erase cycles.

That wont get a RMA swap, they not going to replace just from high wear.

High wear ?, 15TB is hardly high. Umm i should check the other PC as it has a MX500 in it too.

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But why? On what grounds?

M3CR043/M3CR044 -> M3CR045 -> M3CR046

Your drive is in good condition for 2,5 y.o. one. You have a 5-year guarantee, so it will probably still have about 50% left at the end.
Current attributes "01", "05", "AB", "AC", "BB", "C4" -> all @ ZERO -> there is no reason for RMA.
You have 14 TiB Host Writes and 368 ABEC (Micron B47R madia-grade NAND in this SSD is specified @ 1300 P/E-cycles, so you used 368 of 1300 = 28,3% of cycles),
WA (write amplification) is about 3,73x = quite high, but nothing unusual if space utilisation is >80-90% and many small files are written (typical OS-drive usecase).

Had 4 SSD's fail and none of them were below 80% which was only one of them.

 

[Hardcore Games]

With low end SSD do not fill then above 70% so that wear leveling has room to work

 

[chrcoluk]

High wear ?, 15TB is hardly high. Umm i should check the other PC as it has a MX500 in it too.

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Had 4 SSD's fail and none of them were below 80% which was only one of them.

The wear is measured in erase cycles, 250 gig drive 170 cycles. 15tb writes. For a 250 gig drive operating normally I would expect somewhere around 60 cycles for that level of writes, he has 170, some mx 500's due to a bad revision have inflated erase cycles,, I had a thread on it some time ago.

With that said its likely well within the design spec, and is no errors on the drive, thats why I said an RMA would not be approved for that.

 

[massaker]

The wear is measured in erase cycles, 250 gig drive 170 cycles. 15tb writes. For a drive operating normally I would expect somewhere around 6-12 cycles, he has 170,...

170, huh? What r u talking about? Have you read my first post (#2) carefully? And No, it is impossible for 250GB-SSD to have "6-12 cycles" after 15TB writes. Perhaps for 2-4 TB one...
Just divide 15TB by 0,25TB = 60 P/E-cycles in an absolutely unrealistic ideal case if it had WAF=1,0. I would rather say: "for a drive operating normally I would expect somewhere around 120-240 cycles". Summing up: ~180 P/E-cycles would be OK, he has 368, so about twice the cycles one would normally expect.

 

[AsRock]

The wear is measured in erase cycles, 250 gig drive 170 cycles. 15tb writes. For a 250 gig drive operating normally I would expect somewhere around 60 cycles for that level of writes, he has 170, some mx 500's due to a bad revision have inflated erase cycles,, I had a thread on it some time ago.

With that said its likely well within the design spec, and is no errors on the drive, thats why I said an RMA would not be approved for that.

I's still contact them, expecting to be told it's not a good reason for RMA but still.

Some times you can be surprised.

Will have to get around to checking the other system with the MX500 as that's never had a firmware update.

 

[Shrek]

Had 4 SSD's fail and none of them were below 80% which was only one of them.

Out of how many?

 

[AsRock]

Out of how many?

Just saying is all, been buying them since intel started to release them for $230 80GB drives. I am not some one who buys them all the time just what we need for personal use and use them until they die.

Two Team Group Dark drives died which of one of them would quit working time to time one intel one which cuts off very briefly and a Corsair Force GT which is not seen by the system any more.