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Aging SSD or other issue?
Hey Folks, I have a custom built rig I built in Jan 2012. So it's about 2 years and 9 months old. My primary hard drive is a Crucial M4-CT064M4SSD2 60 gig SSD. I've been running Windows 7 on it. I have two other SATA drives for storage and dual boot Ubuntu on one. (500 gig and a brand new 1 TB I got a few days ago). I keep up to speed on my hardware, patched, updated. I keep my system cleaned from viruses, malware, spyware, you name it. I practice safe computing, yada yada. I know more than the average bear. Well CrystalDiskInfo said my SSD was at 94% health about 2 months ago. Before then I checked it was around 96%. I know SSDs degrade over time with write/reads and I always try to keep my SSD under or at the 75% full mark, never going over. And if I do it's temporarily until I get space elsewhere and now I got the other storage drives so it's not an issue. Well I went to use CrystalDiskInfo again today just to see since I just installed my new 1 TB SATA and my SSD drive is at 80% health. Restarted, cleaned it up, I had a hidden VM on it that was taking space up so I deleted it. Everything to normal standards. Still 80% health. How would/could an SSD drive degrade that fast from around ~94% to 80% health in a matter of 2-3 months? It's only 2y9m old and I only use it for my OS (Windows only). All storage, games, etc are on other drives. And I don't do anything intensive with it. I know it's not a hidden process or virus. Could it be a glitch? Thanks.