One of my SSDs is almost 2 years old .Lost 1.5% health only . Considering this , you re far from the end of your SSD. Dont worry . CrystalDiskInfo can show you the amount of written data ! Might check it . 85% health means the SSD has 15% of the TBW endurance used already . Nothing concerning . Keep in mind games often read not write

games usually writes to your system drive. now: you have not explained what drive your SSD is but, if it is your system drive, you should replace it if it deteriorates. though that does mean reinistalling windows. my best desktop is from 2019 and still have its original SSD.

85% life is still OK. The issues of some SSDs might be the cache size and the sustained write speed .

How old is the drive? 85% has a LOT of life left. Outside of installing/updating, gaming is mostly Reads, very little Writes in comparison. Make sure your drive has the latest firmware installed. When the drive reaches 0% years from now, you won't be able to write to the drive but you should still be able to read from the drive, unless it fails.

No need to worry about it.


Edit: Drives can fail prematurely. If you have anything important on the drive it's good practice to have it backed up elsewhere.

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

games usually writes to your system drive. now: you have not explained what drive your SSD is but, if it is your system drive, you should replace it if it deteriorates. though that does mean reinistalling windows. my best desktop is from 2019 and still have its original SSD.

you know you can clone a drive?
even if its the os drive

and steam can be set to install games to library on other drives and never touch the os drive directly
but many games make saves and configs in users documents and registry on the os drive
those are tiny and negligible to drive degradation

Hah hah , dont uninstall Steam . Your precious games will be gone as well // a side note . Must download them back .oof

Originally posted by smallcat:

Hah hah , dont uninstall Steam . Your precious games will be gone as well // a side note . Must download them back .oof

you dont need to do that
just make a library on the new drive and use steam to move them

or if an entire drive is cloned everything on it will all be cloned to the new drive

moving games will move their installed files, and saves if they are in the game folders
not moving from windows users documents or registry
the game will still work with existing saves after moving it

That happened to me a few times . Once was a mouse slip / accident . The other - there was an update . i decided to make a fresh Steam install ,lol

TBW is a loose estimate of lifespan. Follow best practices and it should still work much longer than you might expect.

But there's never a bad time to make a full backup to be safe.

even with a fresh steam install, you can move over steamapps, and steam will find existing libraries and you will just need to verify the games, or use library repair

steam -> settings -> storage -> select library -> [...] -> repair library

oh , thanks . i hope it never happens again