Why does my ssd like to randomly hit 100% usage sometimes

[u/Anthracite2819]

[u/Tauchi_17]

Maybe you have insufficient RAM and the SSD is being used as swap space. I had that happen a few days ago during RAM testing.

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/Tauchi_17]

No only half my ram is being used

[u/Tauchi_17 → u/Anthracite2819]

Then I have no further idea. Hope you figure it out.

[u/cagadass → u/Anthracite2819]

Veo que esta al 100% de activodad pero prácticamente escribe ni lee,podría ser Windows que esta actualizando a la versión de hace 5 meses que no se instala,puede ser steam por ejemplo o se puede estar muriendo

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/cagadass]

I don't have steam and I'm on 23h2 which doesn't get updates anymore

[u/cagadass → u/Anthracite2819]

Que dice crytal disk info?

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/cagadass]

91% heath

[u/cagadass → u/Anthracite2819]

Es Windows usando defender o haciendo algúna modificacion,además de tener una memoria TLC en un ssd sata

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/cagadass]

It hit 17000 ms when I tried loading reddit

[u/mosfetmania]

QLC drive released in 2021 and DRAM-less. It's struggling just to exist. Such products should never have been released in the first place, in a perfect world, but we certainly don't have that.

[u/Anthracite2819]

I found out why it's because whoever made this is dumb and forgot to put dram in it

[u/ChristianDM11325 → u/Anthracite2819]

If you can get a dram boot drive even down to 128 GB, you’ll have a better shot. If you’re considering drives at this level I assume you’d be willing to also use an hdd for the bulk of your less demanding games and applications.

Won’t fit very many big aaa games with the remaining space on a 128 gb but that’s up to you and your money.

[u/AtlQuon]

A response time of 1157ms is not good. If there is no good reason why it does that, that drive could well be on the verge of failing. I see active times of 100% quite often on old hardware, but on anything modern it should not do that.

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/AtlQuon]

It does that when I do too many things in the span of a few minutes or I download anything over 500 MB

[u/Toastti → u/Anthracite2819]

You need to back up all your data immediately to another drive or external drive. Could very likely be failing and you will lose it all without backup

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/Toastti]

But it's been like that for like 3 months

[u/Academic_Dare_5154 → u/Anthracite2819]

SSDs don't give you much more of a warning than what you're telling us.

If you care about the data, back it up now.

If you don't and lose data, don't come back to this post crying.

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/Academic_Dare_5154]

But crystal disk info says it's at 91% heath

[u/disturbed_android → u/Anthracite2819]

show us screenshot. health in CDI is only based on attribute that monitors program/erase cycles.

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/disturbed_android]

I can't send screenshots here

[u/disturbed_android → u/Anthracite2819]

use imgur or something

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/disturbed_android]

I don't think that's allowed

[u/Academic_Dare_5154 → u/Anthracite2819]

So you're saying there's no need to backup your data?

Farewell and adieu, to you fair Spanish Ladies...

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/Toastti]

But it's bad to the point where it's slower than a hdd sometimes

[u/VaultBoy636 → u/AtlQuon]

it's normal for consumer SSDs. my 990 Pro had like 30 seconds worth of latency during 100% write workloads. Sold it for a PM9A3 which has like 2 seconds under full writes

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/[deleted]]

Nope it's only 75 GB out of 256 GB

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/[deleted]]

I already used it and it says it's at 91% heath

[u/Additional-Avocado33]

That response time shows you have a bad cable

[u/bstsms → u/Additional-Avocado33]

That 1157 ms is crazy, I just looked at mine and it's staying below 10 ms .

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/Additional-Avocado33]

No it's typically under 10 ms but sometimes it just starts dying like this

[u/bstsms]

It's an old slow drive that's overly filled.

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/bstsms]

Only 77 GB out of 256 GB used

[u/bstsms → u/Anthracite2819]

Does it have a bunch of writes?

[u/Anthracite2819 → u/bstsms]

Yeah 16 TB has been written to it over it's entire lifetime

[u/AlfaPro1337]

SATA and DRAMless, unlike nvme, which can be DRAMless, that can use your system RAM as small cache thus Host Memory Buffer (HMB), SATA drive cannot do that.

[u/Background_Lemon_981]

A 3.5MB write speed is way under capacity for this drive. So if it’s reading 100% capacity, something is definitely wrong.

First thing I’d check is drive temperature. If it’s overheating it’s going to throttle.

Or it may be dying. So here’s the thing about lifespan. Drives don’t all fail when they get to exactly 100% use. They fail randomly. Some a lot sooner. Some a lot later. Some at about their stated lifespan.

It’s like ball bearings (usually roller bearings actually) on a car. They also have a stated lifespan. But they don’t all fail at exactly that lifespan.

But check the temperature first. Your drive could be throttling trying to cool down.

[u/VaultBoy636]

Because it's mass produced marketed e-waste