Agreed, i mainly mention Crystaldisk because its a quick free tool. Definitely reccomend using multiple avenues of info gathering to determine hardware health.
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agoNot always does Crystal disk completely shine through the disk.
Had a sandisk 512GB SSD which was completely fine.
One day it suddenly became very slow with read and write performance. It was in the <20mb/s range amd painful to recover data from.
Regarding the write cycles: If they ar used up the cells should enter a read only mode so that you should be able to recover the data from. Bad time if it’s the OS though.
Fubar91@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Just saying so other less technical users don’t take the statement as a one stop tool and don’t act on it.
@User with an issue: If the SSD behaves abnormaly than usual, back it up asap and replace it.
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This has never happened to me, but I suspect it’s because the controller is the primary failure point here.