Question Is my Kingston NV2 Dying?

[Gamefreaknet]

In short I have a PC with 3 NV2 drives: (500GB, 2TB and 4TB)
Recently I have been having issues on my 2TB NV2 where usage would go from 0% to 100% when doing basic things like transfers to another drive, updating games, etc...
To troubleshoot this I checked Windows Disk Management and CrystalDiskInfo to check the drives health (its my D: Drive which I can tell from checking in Task Manager). Whilst all 3 apps HWinfo, CrystalDiskInfo and Windows Disk Management came up with no issues on the drive (I did a 32GB ReadWrite test on the drive with Crystal Disk - Currently 60% full).
To further check this I did an /sfc SCANNOW in Command Prompt which returned there are is some corruption but it couldnt fix it and gave me the file path for the log it made with the error however I have no clue how to read logs and the log it did provide was a bunch of weird symbols that made no sense to me...

For some reason only my D: drive seems to have this issue and my other 2 drives are unaffected/not having this issue.

I then tried restarting my PC (the basic solution to a lot of issues) with no change. Even now Only my D: drive sits at 100% at random intervals even when I am doing nothing intensive.
(I did look up reviews on the NV2 which I honestly wish I had done before and do intend to fully replace all 3 drives even if it means I have to do a clean install of Win11)

I intend to get 3x ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 4 TB to replace my 3 NV2s

 

[Lutfij]

Might want to see if the drive that you're suspecting as the culprit, has any firmware updates. How old is the drive in question? Make and model of your motherboard? BIOS version for your motherboard?

 

[fzabkar]

Can you upload the SFC log and CDI SMART results?

 

[Gamefreaknet]

Might want to see if the drive that you're suspecting as the culprit, has any firmware updates. How old is the drive in question? Make and model of your motherboard? BIOS version for your motherboard?

full build:

Component		Selection	Price
CPU			Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor	£389.99	Buy
CPU Cooler			Antec Symphony ARGB 72 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	£101.98	Buy
Motherboard			Gigabyte B760 GAMING X AX ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	£172.96	Buy
Memory			Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 CL36 Memory	£99.00	Buy
Storage			Kingston NV2 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£35.00	Buy
Storage			Kingston NV2 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£93.00	Buy
Storage			Kingston NV2 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£187.00	Buy
Video Card			MSI GAMING X TRIO GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card	£872.39	Buy
Case			Antec DP503 ATX Mid Tower Case	£101.98	Buy
Power Supply			Corsair RM1000e (2023) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£145.00	Buy
Monitor			AOC C27G2Z 27.0" 1920 x 1080 240 Hz Curved Monitor	No PricesAvailable	Buy

 

[Gamefreaknet]

full build: (had the pc about 4 months)

Component		Selection	Price
CPU			Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor	£389.99	Buy
CPU Cooler			Antec Symphony ARGB 72 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	£101.98	Buy
Motherboard			Gigabyte B760 GAMING X AX ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	£172.96	Buy
Memory			Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 CL36 Memory	£99.00	Buy
Storage			Kingston NV2 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£35.00	Buy
Storage			Kingston NV2 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£93.00	Buy
Storage			Kingston NV2 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	£187.00	Buy
Video Card			MSI GAMING X TRIO GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card	£872.39	Buy
Case			Antec DP503 ATX Mid Tower Case	£101.98	Buy
Power Supply			Corsair RM1000e (2023) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£145.00	Buy
Monitor			AOC C27G2Z 27.0" 1920 x 1080 240 Hz Curved Monitor	No PricesAvailable	Buy

 

[Gamefreaknet]

Can you upload the SFC log and CDI SMART results?

CBS Log
CrystalDiskMark Test (not sure how to get the detail from CDI)

 

[Deleted member 2962262]

Unlikely to be the cause but the possibility of malware should be considered. If you have good back ups available a clean install might be the easiest way to rule this out and address some other possible issues.

 

[fzabkar]

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...em-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e

SFC found two files whose contents were inconsistent with their cached copies but could not be repaired because "source file in store is also corrupted".

C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\msjhl.ttc​

C:\WINDOWS\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe​

These files would not be the cause of your problems, although they may be a symptom.

The "weird symbols" are cryptographic hashes of the contents of each file. SFC generates a new hash from the active file and compares it against the hash of the cached copy. If the hashes don't match, then SFC knows that something has changed.

CDI reports SMART data, eg reallocated sectors, media integrity errors, etc. CDM is a benchmarking tool.

 

[ferris1000]

Your Kingston NV2 is failing.

It must be a common issue with the Kinston NV2 because i had the same issue a few Days ago.
My 2TB Kinston NV2 was used as a Second Drive for Games and after 7 Month (with under 1TB in total written) the Games on the NV2 got stuck on the Loading Screen and in Task Manager the Drive went to 100% activity and stayed at 100% even though the Game was already closed.
My PC then started to stutter and act weird and couldn't be rebooted so that i had to unplug the PC from the Wall.

I started with one Game and then other Games didn't load to and cause the same issue.

Backing up the SSD was partially possible but on some Files the Speed dropped into 5 KB/s speed and also caused the activity to go to 100%.

I also noticed that the Power On time wasn't right and had 4305 hours on it while the C Drive SSD had only 777 hours on it, which is really odd because I bought them both new and installed them into the same PC at the same Time.

Kingston replaced the SSD in warranty without wanting the old SSD back but I personally don't trust Kingston NV2 SSDs anymore and replaced it at the end with a 4TB Lexar NM790 that I bought for 200 Bucks.

I recommend you reaching out to Kingston and get it replaced.

Edit:
ADATA S70 Blade is a good choice, my main drive is an ADATA Legend 840 which works reliable and so does the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro that i installed into my ASUS ROG Laptop almost 5 Years ago. Both are getting abused to the oblivion and they still work without any issues.