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About Kingston tool Box and my SSD.
Just wanting to make sure it's reading correctly. Says the drive I got last December is 100%
Kingston SH103S3120G
power hours 3762
cycles 508
lifetime writes 2360GB
lifetime reads 2836GB
Not 100% sure why so many writes. Seems like a lot. I eventually pointed my temp and downloads folder to my storage drive. I swap games off it some. I got it before the huge price drop so it's not as large as I would like but haven't been at my pc in months. Didn't see a need to get another.
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It is because of the swap file. The swap file is something the computer uses as extra ram and it is using it a lot whenever you run several programs.
You could set the swap file on another drive but I don't recommend it since the speed would be a lot slower.
If by "last December", you mean "yesterday", then something is wrong. If you mean "about a year ago", then what those numbers really mean is that write endurance isn't going to be a problem for you. SSDs are typically rated as being able to handle something in the ballpark of 100 TB of writes, and in practice, can go far beyond that. You're at about 2 TB, so even if the drive does wear out in a few decades, it will be time to replace it for reasons unrelated to write endurance long before then, anyway.
Don't be afraid to have your swap file and such on the SSD. The point of buying an SSD is so that you can use it and take advantage of the speed it offers. A swap file on an SSD is really only trouble if you've got a woefully inadequate amount of memory (e.g., 2 GB), in which case, the solution would be buying more memory.
For what it's worth, one site bought the 240 GB version of the Kingston HyperX 3K that you have, and decided to see how many writes it could handle before failing. After 2 PB of writes, some drive indicators are warning of trouble, but the drive still seems to work fine.
http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes
For what it's worth, "peta" is the metric prefix meaning "a really big number". Okay, so it actually means quadrillion, though to a lot of people, "quadrillion" doesn't actually mean anything besides "a really big number".
Yeah nothing to worry about - 2T of writes in a year isn't too bad. That drive can probably handle 100x that, and maybe 1000x that.
yeah dont worry bout that
ive got a 840 evo 250gb and in less then a year im allready @ 8.18 TB and its still é 100%