SSD failing. How to proceed? And what caused it?

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I think that this is not normal at all https://i.imgur.com/4Xx9CAT.jpg

It was from nowhere. Yesterday I turned it on with no issues, today I got the S.M.A.R.T message from the BIOS.

I'm still using it with no problems.
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PSU: Corsair CX 550 or 600 I forgot.

MB: M5A97-EVO

GPU: RX 470

CPU: FX 8350

SSD: Kingston 250GB

My current OC can't even be called an OC. I only did it because a core was failing when testing with prime95 and BIOS default settings. So I did this to keep things stable and tested on prime95 for more than 12h with no problems.

Here's the "OC" settings:

https://i.imgur.com/qf41kJQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KOKokWk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/s0ltlDX.jpg


As you can see my other HD is healthy. I used to OC it too, going up to 215~220 CPU Bus. Just recently I stopped.

https://i.imgur.com/5dXcBkF.jpg I went to "optimize" my SSD to see if it helped anything, what are those 2 volumes there? I don't think they were there before.

Should try formatting my SSD?


Is there anything I can try to fix it? Do you guys have any clue what caused this problem?

Thank you all.
 
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BFG-9000
Anything made by man can fail. But it doesn't say anything failed, only that the SSD is nearly worn out. And I don't think everything on that screen is accurate--it says you have read and written 0GB in 1.5 years and 1277 reboots, so I would just keep using it.
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Anything made by man can fail. But it doesn't say anything failed, only that the SSD is nearly worn out. And I don't think everything on that screen is accurate--it says you have read and written 0GB in 1.5 years and 1277 reboots, so I would just keep using it.
 
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see who made the drive. see if there any 3 party ssd tools to check drive total written to the drive. the drive itself may have one weak celll that been swaped out. the bigger issue is if the drive near it total write life. if it is some drive will lock you out and you cna lose all of your data before you can move it. if the drive is under warranty i would send in a rma tickeckt see if it hard failure.
 
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SOLUTION (I can't pick my own comment as a solution):

A firmware update fixed it. Back to 99% lifespan.

I didn't even know firmware updates for SSD were a thing.

I still have absolutely no clue what triggered it, and I'm pretty sure I did nothing different, in fact I think I didn't do anything at all besides watching some youtube videos and turning it off that day.
 
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On HDD, a firmware update almost always resets the power-on hours to zero (HDD obviously do not track GB written). I'm not sure resetting the writes counter is a good thing for a SSD because it hides the actual life used. The software you were using to read it may simply have been unable to read it correctly, and now not even the right software would be able to tell you the true GB written.
 
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It's an SSD, Power On hours still the same. The GBs written aren't supported by factory, there's nothing any program can do about it no matter what.

The firmware fixed it the bug.
 
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SOLUTION (I can't pick my own comment as a solution):

A firmware update fixed it. Back to 99% lifespan. It was just a bug.
 
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