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After having my computer on for a day or two, sometimes much less, I start experiencing random freezing. When I get a freeze, my C drive's usage spikes to 100% and it drops once the computer stops freezing. The C drive is an SSD (pic related) that's about 2 years old now. It used to be in my laptop until that died for unrelated reasons, and it also had this freezing problem. Now it's in my new desktop that I built from the ground up, and the freezing has started after about a month of it seemingly being "fixed" by updating my motherboard's drivers.
So, does anyone know a way of checking if this is the drive's fault, and a way to fix it if it is, or is it just fucked?
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>>375654
>So, does anyone know a way of checking if this is the drive's fault, and a way to fix it if it is, or is it just fucked?
The drive might be fucked, you can check by reading its smart data, i recommend using CrystalDiskInfo. If you get greeted by a big yellow caution button then the drive is probably failing.
But its very common for a system to lockup for a few seconds if your drive is maxed out at 100%, what program is maxing it out? If just having it on for a day or two without using it much makes it start to lock up it sounds like a windows process going crazy or maybe an antivirus. There's alot of reasons you can be getting hangs, i wouldn't jump to the conclusion the drive is gonna die.
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>>375673
Nothing appears to be maxing it out, and it's SMART data is still saying it's good. I actually checked my drives yesterday when a different drive started failing, and the SSD was still considered healthy (the external I was looking at was yellow, though)
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>>375673
Not sure if it might be related or not, but I just rechecked the SMART data, and it said it had 5215 hours on. I know for a fact that it was on for more than that, since I left my laptop on last year for around 358 days total (servers and torrents kept it on nearly 24/7), and it's from the year before that, plus 6ish months this year.
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>>375654
I had that exact model for about a year or two before it died. After some some research on the model and error codes I found out it was due to bugged firmware. I would suggest not shutting down your computer until you have made sure everything important is backed up.
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