September 16, 2025Sep 16 Community Expert My NVME disk seems to be working well. However, I realized that the SMART test has failed. I am hopeful that I may be able to ignore this as it may be a result of the "percentage used" being above 100% rather than anything else? I read on the forum that I can well use the disks longer than their intended use. From the log below, it is less clear to me though whether there may be other issues as well and I should better replace the drive? Any thoughts?https://pastebin.com/CG6hGrNz
September 16, 2025Sep 16 Community Expert 6 hours ago, steve1977 said:able to ignore this as it may be a result of the "percentage used" being above 100%That's what caused the SMART failure, and you can ignore, of course, the devices is past its estimated life, so it can fail sooner rather than later; just make sure you have adequate backups, you should always have them anyway.
September 16, 2025Sep 16 Author Community Expert I am getting the backups ready. I had always thought that NVME disks are lasting forever, but seems their life expectancy isn't quite as long...Maybe I should just upgrade the disk to avoid data loss. Additional benefit would be getting a better NVME disk. Would the speed gain be noticeable by moving from an PM961 to a Samsung 980 or 980Pro or 990Evoplus. I am restricted by PCI3.0 bus speed as I don't just yet plan to upgrade the mobo. Thoughts on these choices?
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