Can this be simply a case of planned obsolence (i.e. The reason I'm asking that is because I'm kind of suspicious about this drive being manufactured by a brand I have never heard about.How worried should I be? Assuming that I store everything important in the cloud and create frequent backups, can I get a few more months out of this drive safely, or should I order a new one right away? (Considering that this is not a small expense.).And although the Sk hynix program does shed some light on what the critical warning exactly is ("Reliability"), it is still quite low on details. But, to my eye at least, not really – apart from Percentage used and Critical warning, everything seems to be fine. I'm not sure what I expected, but I kind of hoped that the other SMART values will shed some light on what's going on. I immediately created a backup (on top of the normal schedule) and installed Hard Disk Sentinel, along with Sk hynix's own disk utility, to check:
#KINGSTON SSD HEALTH CHECK TOOL WINDOWS#
Truth to be told, I don't really know how sudden that jump to 97% was – the health of that laptop wasn't monitored as closely (it being basically a web surfing machine with occasional photo editing) – we just got a notification from Windows yesterday that things are bad because the SSD has 3% condition. So I don't really understand how (and why) the Sk hynix SSD jumped to 97% suddenly. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I think its age and usage doesn't really warrant that: my main work laptop has a Samsung SSD that is way-way older (close to 5 years I think?) and is under much larger stress on a daily basis (web development), and yet it reports only 10% "Percentage used" (which I think is fine considering its age and use). We have a 3 year old HP laptop that came with a 512 GB Sk hynix SSD – it never had any problems, but now, out of the blue, it reports 3% health (97% "Percentage used") in its SMART values. I think this is my first time posting on SuperUser and I'm not super experienced with the subject so please bear with me if I leave out some details on first attempt.
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