solid state drives ssds storages are faster and more efficient than traditional hard disk drives hdds users can check the health of their storage drives with an ssd utility which is a graphical user interface gui based tool that is designed to help users maintain monitor and tune their ssds if you check the health of a new ssd ideally it should be at 100 which eventually reduces when you start writing data to the driveread alsosamsung q990b 1114channel soundbar review takes dolby atmos experience to nextlevelit appears that samsung has a soundbar that claims to offer a complete 1114channel setup packed within a soundbar two rear speakers and an 8inch subwoofer we are talking about the companys flagship the q990b soundbar which succeeds the q950b which was already a pretty impressive packagessd health degradation is a natural thing but it might be a problem when the value starts decreasing exponentially even when you are not writing any data to the drive according to a report by toms hardware multiplesamsung ssd users have reported a health issue with their storage drives as per the report several samsung 990 pro users have complained that the health of their ssds is deteriorating at a rapid rate samsung 990 pro health issue affected ssds the report mentions that the entire samsung 990 pro lineup regardless of the capacity has been affected by this issue some of these ssds are showing over 10 health loss in a matter of days or weeks the report adds samsung 990 pros health degradation issue was initially reported on overclocknet forums in december 2022 since then more users have complained about the same issue as more reports started emerging samsung 990 pro health issue how is it affecting usersa user who owns a 2tb ssd reported a health loss of 7 in one month with just 6641gb written to the drive another samsung 990 pro user mentioned a 12 deterioration since the ssds installation in december this user wrote 279tb to the drive and discovered that the drives health is falling nearly 1 every week another reddit user noticed a 6 drop in the health of his samsung 990 pro 2tb ssd and sent the drive back to the tech giant samsung reportedly returned the drive and claimed that it didnt find any defects the company even formatted the drive and restored it to its factory settings moreover samsung also offered the user a replacement and asked him to replicate the issueapart from this a twitter user named neil schofield has reported the worst case and even shared a screenshot to demonstrate his ssd issue as per the tweet schofields samsung 990 pro ssd showed a 64 health status only after writing a mere 2tbsamsung promises 1200 tbw terabytes written for the samsung 990 pro ssd this means 1 equals 12tb of written data and a 93 health status means the user has already written about 84tb of data samsung 990 pro whats causing the issuethe report