I'm asking this question for a friend, which has had me bewildered as to why his pc seems to "kill ssds". According to him, his pc has killed 2 SSDs in the past, one of which is an sata SSD. That sata SSD survived for over a year without any problems in a different pc but died 2 months after being installed into his current pc, both SSD's disk usage would hit 100% every time he play games and he thinks that's the cause of their death. And now he claims that the same thing is happening to his hard drive. To be very clear, he has yet to back up his claim with disk usage figures from task manager. Nor has he offered me figures from CrystalDiskInfo.
So with what I know so far, I assumed he bought a cheap, dram less SSD (which turned out to be a kingston A400, 480GB model) and was just transferring large video files frequently, but what he later told me puzzled me even more and was the reason I decided to ask for help. He said that his first NVMe SSD, a samsung 970 evo, was the first SSD to "die". That's strange, considering NVMe ssds, especially samsung ones shouldn't "die" within a year, considering all he does is play games. He told me he was going to factory reset his pc, which earned him a weird look from me, since I suspect that his windows was to blame. He would have to do a fresh install of windows 10, but I'm not 100% sure if that's the cause of his problems, can anyone entertain me with a solution?
So with what I know so far, I assumed he bought a cheap, dram less SSD (which turned out to be a kingston A400, 480GB model) and was just transferring large video files frequently, but what he later told me puzzled me even more and was the reason I decided to ask for help. He said that his first NVMe SSD, a samsung 970 evo, was the first SSD to "die". That's strange, considering NVMe ssds, especially samsung ones shouldn't "die" within a year, considering all he does is play games. He told me he was going to factory reset his pc, which earned him a weird look from me, since I suspect that his windows was to blame. He would have to do a fresh install of windows 10, but I'm not 100% sure if that's the cause of his problems, can anyone entertain me with a solution?