Is my Samsung 830 SSD dying now?

[GeezerMan]

did a performance check and the sequential write speed looks low at 272.66 MB/s

this is using the AS SSD benchmark utility

 

[coercitiv]

What's the capacity of your 830? If it's 128GB then it's behaving normally, if it's 256-512GB then it's a bit bellow the 330MB/s nominal speed.

 

[UsandThem]

Try CrystalDiskInfo for drive health:

https://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

 

[GeezerMan]

What's the capacity of your 830? If it's 128GB then it's behaving normally, if it's 256-512GB then it's a bit bellow the 330MB/s nominal speed.

yes, it's the 128GB drive. I was thinking it used to be around 400MB/s, but that was awhile back, and I could be mistaken

 

[coercitiv]

yes, it's the 128GB drive. I was thinking it used to be around 400MB/s, but that was awhile back, and I could be mistaken

If it's the 128GB then the speed isn't problematic, since it's rated for up to 320MB/s.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/4863/the-samsung-ssd-830-review
As @UsandThem already said, you can use CrystalDiskInfo to check drive health. It's probably fine though.

 

[GeezerMan]

https://imgur.com/cbmXAGV

I did the crystal disk test earlier, and indicated normal.

here's the test result I got today

and thanks guys for the info. I guess I was expecting too much of the old SSD