- Mar 17, 2013
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I have a SSD that I have owned for about a year that I suspect may be beginning to fail. The SSD in question is a KingSpec 360GB SSD 2.5 Inch SATA3 drive. The symptoms are that sometimes when I am trying to save to the drive e.g. saving a video or image from the web there will be a long pause (5 seconds+) before the Windows save dialog comes up. It is kind of like the drive is asleep and needs to 'wake up' sort of like what happens if you have a HDD that has spun down and parked the heads and needs to spin back up before it can be used. This tends to happen on average about every 8 to 10 times I go to save something. It doesn't have to be a large file I had it happen on a word document a couple of times and the problem can happen soon after it already has, so I don't think it could be a power management issue e.g. Windows turning it off after xx minutes. Also when I go into "this PC" (formerly "my computer") to view the drives it will very occasionally hang trying to show the drives and temporarily lock up file explorer. Similarly sometimes when I am loading from the drive e.g. uploading images to online storage or making a eBay listing I will sometimes get the same pause while it waits to open file explorer. During this 'waiting' time the whole PC seems to become unresponsive but then carries on like nothing has happened once the explorer window comes back.
The thing is, touch wood, the data still seems to save onto the drive ok and load from it ok despite these issues. Plus to further muddy the waters Crystal Disk Info shows the drive status as "good", the temps are low and relatively speaking it has had virtually no use with just over 1TB of reads and writes to it. In the list of attributes everything gets 100 (presumably out of 100?) except the raw read error rate, which is 99, not sure if that is normal?
Is there anything I can get that will do a lower level diagnostic than Crystal Disk to reveal a impending problem with the SSD, or is there any other way I can determine if it is the SSD or something else in the system at fault here?
Alternatively, could I have gotten it completely wrong and the issue is unrelated to the SSD?, but surely it can't be a coincidence that it only happens when I try to read to or write from the drive?
This is most puzzling, so any responses welcomed!
The thing is, touch wood, the data still seems to save onto the drive ok and load from it ok despite these issues. Plus to further muddy the waters Crystal Disk Info shows the drive status as "good", the temps are low and relatively speaking it has had virtually no use with just over 1TB of reads and writes to it. In the list of attributes everything gets 100 (presumably out of 100?) except the raw read error rate, which is 99, not sure if that is normal?
Is there anything I can get that will do a lower level diagnostic than Crystal Disk to reveal a impending problem with the SSD, or is there any other way I can determine if it is the SSD or something else in the system at fault here?
Alternatively, could I have gotten it completely wrong and the issue is unrelated to the SSD?, but surely it can't be a coincidence that it only happens when I try to read to or write from the drive?
This is most puzzling, so any responses welcomed!
I upgraded this year and decided to sell off my conventional HDDs in favour of going all solid state with my storage for best possible performance, though it hasn't been entirely successful thanks to this troublesome Kingspec one.
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