Is my ssd dying?

[Blagues]

My ssd Does a weird thing: all the speeds are fine but when i unzip or try to move a file the speed drops(to 500kb/s). I have no idea What it is and it can not be the drive dying, its 1 year old. And the download speeds haven't changed either.

 

[ComputerGeek21]

is this a custom computer? has your ssd always done this?

 

[timomatic]

Go into your task manager and see if anything is maxing out while your running your unzip. It may be that your cpu is maxing out while its trying to perform this action.

 

[Blagues]

Well i didn't build it myself vut its custom made. And no This is the first Tine This happened

 

[Blagues]

Go into your task manager and see if anything is maxing out while your running your unzip. It may be that your cpu is maxing out while its trying to perform this action.

well, last Time I checked it was not even running half-way. However This Seems vert unlikely given that my cpu is a watercooled i7-6700k

 

[dudmont]

How old is your drive and how much data has it written during it's life span? Further how large is the drive and how much do you have for free space at the moment? And what brand and model is the SSD?

 

[ComputerGeek21]

okay how full is your ssd? if its almost full try freeing up some space
also try updating the driver software
if this fails you may need to start messing around in bios

 

[ComputerGeek21]

oo and how much ram do you have? one of your ram sticks might be broken so check in task manager if its registering the same amount it had during purchase

 

[Blagues]

How old is your drive and how much data has it written during it's life span? Further how large is the drive and how much do you have for free space at the moment? And what brand and model is the SSD?

Its 1 year old and it has 120gb out of the 256gb written on it. So the free space is like ~120gb. This Is after I did a full reset on my pc hoping that it would help. The deive is a adata sp900.

 

[dudmont]

Good info. Have you been able to replicate it, does it happen every time?
Ok, this should be a pretty good drive. MLC nand, sandforce controller, and it has dram. I'll say right now, I doubt that drive is dieing(I asked a bunch of questions, cause they're related to what causes SSD slowdowns, and you didn't have any issues). When the anomaly shows itself, you mention the speed shows as 500kbps, but does it seem really slow? When the anomaly shows itself, are you able to get an idea how much system ram is available? Has the system been on for a long time with no resets? Has there been a lot of drive activity?

 

[madmatt30]

Antivirus automatic scanning can cause that issue when extracting files .

Your drive certainly won't be dying at that age/lifespan.

 

[dudmont]

Antivirus automatic scanning can cause that issue when extracting files .

Your drive certainly won't be dying at that age/lifespan.

For what it's worth, I think you hit the nail on the head.

 

[Blagues]

Good info. Have you been able to replicate it, does it happen every time?
Ok, this should be a pretty good drive. MLC nand, sandforce controller, and it has dram. I'll say right now, I doubt that drive is dieing(I asked a bunch of questions, cause they're related to what causes SSD slowdowns, and you didn't have any issues). When the anomaly shows itself, you mention the speed shows as 500kbps, but does it seem really slow? When the anomaly shows itself, are you able to get an idea how much system ram is available? Has the system been on for a long time with no resets? Has there been a lot of drive activity?

The weird thing is that when I download a zipped file from the internet, it takes just seconds to download but every time when i try to unzip it it goed slow. Sometines it Goes up to 40% withouten problems and then it just randonely drops to being real slow, taking hours to do the remaing 60%, i've never let it going on when after it dropped tho. I never let the system be on for longet then 4-8hours I use the pc to play games and most of the time I just shut it down afterwards.

 

[Blagues]

Antivirus automatic scanning can cause that issue when extracting files .

Your drive certainly won't be dying at that age/lifespan.

You could be right, I always have mcafee running in the background....

 

[dudmont]

Antivirus automatic scanning can cause that issue when extracting files .

Your drive certainly won't be dying at that age/lifespan.

You could be right, I always have mcafee running in the background....

disable the AV next time as a test

 

[Blagues]

It works fine now, I have no idea what fixed it.
After a month or 2 it just never happened again.