It might be a bad batch, but other reports show this to be a thing. After about a years use the ssd of mine (Rocket Plus 4) started losing 5% of health every few weeks. To the point it is at 0% according to crystaldiskinfo.
According to mutliple forum posts and reddit topics people do not know if it is a actual failure or not. It seems to work with no data corruption from what we can see. According to their own control panel it is at 100% still.
All other smart info is fine. It also seems to occasionally slow down windows after boot. Like a program on initial login takes up to 4 minutes to respond. Like I can’t open explorer or chrome or firefox or anything until after 4 minutes post login.
So I don’t know. I am not sure what is going on because data does not seem to be corrupted. I was able to clone the install to another ssd and that loads instantly and is better.
But I will probably use sabrent until it dies as a game drive or something.
As far as I can tell this has been going on for about 2 years for people and sabrent has not been helpful in regards to telling people if their drives are good to use or not. I wonder if they fucked up firmware that communicates with smart vs their own in house health reading.