Occasional system crashes Repeated error messages Unstable performance
Occasional system crashes Repeated error messages Unstable performance
The health score doesn't really matter since the manufacturer decides when it changes. The number reflects how much of the promised read and write capacity you've used. It doesn't directly indicate the drive's condition; you can guess from it, for example, if it hits 20% after six months something is wrong. You need to check the SMART details listed under general info (on CDI), but with today's SSDs most of these are no longer useful because they've been removed. Most parameters are just data points, not vital, so you must know which ones matter. I've noticed a few hundred defective NVMe drives and rarely found more than five with any SMART warnings. NVMe originally introduced these new statistics, but many modern SATA SSDs also include outdated SMART info. Let's transfer the page file to another drive. When a crash occurs, it writes all data to the page file and then generates a dump file during the next startup. If no dump files appear, it usually points to a storage problem—especially if the drive is on an external or unreliable device. If the page file resides on something questionable, that might be the cause. Ideally, place it on C:; if it's already there, try moving it elsewhere so you can start receiving dump files.