Aspire F15 (F5-572G-764T) Help! Will an overfilled SSD lose data overtime?

Nowi276
Nowi276 Member Posts: 24 Networker
edited January 2023 in Aspire Laptops

I own an Aspire F15 (F5-572G-764T) made in 2015. Cared for this laptop for over 8 years until I found out that my 512 GB internal SSD was overfilled with data. Currently vacationing and I idiotically forgot to bring one of my 7 External Drives I left at home. Today I noticed that the performance of my laptop slowed down. Will I lose 85% of data overtime from an overfilled SSD? I’m highly worried and I can’t afford to lose my art and videos I have worked on for over 4 years. 😩😢

Any help is appreciated!

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]

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  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,155 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓
    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/677590/help-will-an-overfilled-ssd-lose-data-overtime

    If you are on a short holiday, you won't lose the data from a filled SSD drive, don't worry about that. The rule is that mechanical HDDs have the potential to last with their data intact for decades even if powered down. SSDs, meanwhile, are said to lose their data within a few years in the same state. In fact, there are reports that, if they’re stored in an unusually hot location, the data on an SSD can be wiped out even faster.

    The easiest course of action that you can take when you get back home, as its the easiest solution, is to backup all your important folders and files onto your one of your external drives, this drive can also be installed and be linked to this laptop by taking the DVD drive out and by buying a caddy and inset that backed up HDD and inset it into the DVD slot with the caddy and use this HDD as a slave drive, preferably use a min 2TB or bigger so that you have lots of space for any of your future data, its the safest and most secure way, as external drives do get damaged by their USN connections to a laptop as it happened to me with a 1TB extremal drive and I had to get it recovered by a recovery technician.

    Another solution is to buy a new and bigger capacity SSD drive, like a 1TB SSD drive (get a Samsung EVO type drive) as that is what I've used for over 5 years and have experience with for great reliability and speed for a 2.5" SSD drive, as Samsung have a great cloning software called Data Migration and a great SSD tuning software called Magician that also downloads the newest updated firmware of their SSD drives and also enables TRIM to their SSD drives.

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  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,155 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓
    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/677590/help-will-an-overfilled-ssd-lose-data-overtime

    If you are on a short holiday, you won't lose the data from a filled SSD drive, don't worry about that. The rule is that mechanical HDDs have the potential to last with their data intact for decades even if powered down. SSDs, meanwhile, are said to lose their data within a few years in the same state. In fact, there are reports that, if they’re stored in an unusually hot location, the data on an SSD can be wiped out even faster.

    The easiest course of action that you can take when you get back home, as its the easiest solution, is to backup all your important folders and files onto your one of your external drives, this drive can also be installed and be linked to this laptop by taking the DVD drive out and by buying a caddy and inset that backed up HDD and inset it into the DVD slot with the caddy and use this HDD as a slave drive, preferably use a min 2TB or bigger so that you have lots of space for any of your future data, its the safest and most secure way, as external drives do get damaged by their USN connections to a laptop as it happened to me with a 1TB extremal drive and I had to get it recovered by a recovery technician.

    Another solution is to buy a new and bigger capacity SSD drive, like a 1TB SSD drive (get a Samsung EVO type drive) as that is what I've used for over 5 years and have experience with for great reliability and speed for a 2.5" SSD drive, as Samsung have a great cloning software called Data Migration and a great SSD tuning software called Magician that also downloads the newest updated firmware of their SSD drives and also enables TRIM to their SSD drives.

  • Nowi276
    Nowi276 Member Posts: 24 Networker

    Thank you so much @StevenGen! You’re a real hero! It’s quite an emergency for me since I have 4 weeks left on my holidays and today I’m set to buy another external drive. I will report if anything successful happens.

    Last time I opened my laptop for a CPU fan cleaning and Thermal gunk replacement (2020), I never paid attention to the brand of my SSD at all. 😅

    I used to own an old Sony Vaio laptop made in 2010 and installed a Samsung 250 EVO SSD together with my instructor at my computer college. The performance and boot speed was terrific and I experienced no issues at all.

    Furthermore concerning its performance, my Acer laptop has not experienced any BSODs, drive / boot failures, RAM latencies, high end CPU processing, and CMOS battery wear outs . It’s always been intact since it’s factory year and I prophecy that it will live for another 2 or 3 years until it fully dies out. If anything, I’d say that this is its first major issue it has run into. 😊

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