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Crystal Disk Info: "Total Host Writes" shows two distinct values

Crystal Disk Info shows two distinct values for Total Host Writes on my SSD when hovering over it, one of which is less than the other; which number of writes is correct?
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Is my hard disk about to fail? (Tests seem inconsistent)

I have a secondary hard drive in my Windows 10 machine which has not been given any problems until it suddenly disconnected today. After a shutdown and restart, everything appears to be working and the only error/warnings messages in the event log…
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Crystal Disk Info, SSD. NTFS corrupted

My 128GB SSD is configured in RAID1. According to the technical specs it has 100TBW. Total host writes is now more then 150 000GB. The filesystem is getting corrupted all the time. I think this SSD is not designed for such write output. Average…
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Get SSD Host Writes in Windows via Command Line

In CrystalDiskInfo, I can see how many GB have been written to an SSD. This is helpful to monitor its usage over time: If possible, I would like to run a script automatically that pulls this information and keeps a log of it over time in a csv…
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Is it possible to run CrystalDiskInfo from the command line/powershell?

I want to be able to run CrystalDiskInfo from the cmd to save and analyze the data. I want to do it in a way where I can automatically run CrystalDiskInfo on a remote device and send commands based on the data output. Also, I want to do it in a way…
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Trying to understand if this old Toshiba HDD is usable

I just salvaged this very old Toshiba HDD (from 2014). I installed it in my PC, formatted and ran a CrystalDiskInfo. It shows very little usage and is marked as healthy, but all the parameters seem through the roof. I don't really understand what…
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NVMe PCIe SSD using 2 lanes instead of 4

I recently installed an WD Blue SN570 500GB NVMe SSD in my HP laptop and I did a benchmark test in crystal disk software and got 1700MBps read speed but this SSD supports 3500MBps. When I checked in crystal disk info software I see laptop is using…
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Why does CrystalDiskInfo show "B1 Vendor Specific" as a bad disk health indicator?

I have bad performance when processing large files and I ran CrystalDiskInfo and it shows disk health status as "bad" with row ID=B1 and "Vendor Specific" marked in red. I tried looking at S.M.A.R.T attributes lists but nowhere does it list "B1"…
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Two SMART properties check programs, different results of End-to-End error

Take a look at SMART-ID value D8: Which one of the two is correct and is the current state really critical? The RAW values are NOT different: Crystal reads 11h = 17 Passmark reads 17 = 11h
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High read error rate for a 14TB HDD, is this normal range or not?

This is a new HDD, but it looks like the read error rate is too high. It is higher than the threshold, but not sure if this a normal for a new HDD. Should I request for a replacement?
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How should I interpret this "Bad disk" report by CrystalDiskInfo?

Today, I have gone through the process of individually plugging in all my ten current backup disks and checked them with CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.8 x64 in order to determine whether I dare to keep using them or if they are "singing on their last verse",…
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CrystalDiskInfo - PC randomly crashes while playing games, trying to figure out cause

D Drive: C Drive: I've been having pc freezing and crashing while playing video games and doing normal tasks on my computer over the last few months. I've tried everything I could think of and memory tests. I was hoping if someone could help me…
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Which number of "Reallocated Sectors Count" should I trust in Crystal Disk Info?

Using Crystal Disk Info checking the hard drives "Reallocated Sectors Count", which number is the correct one and why do they differ? Why is the tooltip number different from the one in the list? I assume the number in the list, but it boggles my…
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The best approach to calculating SSD wear with crystaldisk command line

I installed crystaldiskinfo (Version 8.17.3) on a windows pc, and then ran the following command line function. cmd > "%ProgramFiles%\CrystaldiskInfo64.exe" /CopyExit This gives me a text file in the same directory with the following information: …
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HDD SMART Caution changed to Good

This is a strange happening. I had a disk whose SMART status was displayed as Caution in CrystalDiskInfo when I powered it up after a few years. It had uncorrectable sector and pending sectors, and and some files were corrupt. I downloaded the…
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