Hello Data Horders,
I've been trying to check the health status of my drives because I was curious to see how they're doing, but I'm quite confused about the Wear Level Count in the S.M.A.R.T statistics.
Looking online I've found two totally opposite answers; the first being that a LOW wear level count indicates that the drive has barely any wear on it, but at the same time other's have said a low value indicates that the drive may fail soon.
First I checked using CrystalDiskInfo v7.6 which I already had installed, as well as on Samsung Magician. This came back with my SSD having a Wear Level Count of 1, and stated the drive is in good health:
https://preview.redd.it/mavs8g0gdsie1.png?width=1747&format=png&auto=webp&s=960e5918dbcb2ac4dc77141e29f79a2e238bdc61
I then realized that my CrystalDiskInfo was quite outdated, so I picked up the newest version and this is where the confusion spawned from. As you see below, it's stating that my drive health is at 1% and cautions about the Wear Level Count:
https://preview.redd.it/7aglzaoudsie1.png?width=999&format=png&auto=webp&s=67ad3606b3417408426c666a1fcddd121028142a
So I'm just wondering for those more familiar with these statistics, is this possibly just a false reading from the 9.5.0 version of CrystalDiskInfo, or does my drive actually have an issue? This is the main drive in my PC with the operating system, so it's not like I'm using it as storage, gaming or big file transfers. I would assume it shouldn't be dying this quickly compared to my other drives that I regularly write and delete from?
