Question Is there an app that will stress test a SSD?

[ManOfArc]

...one that would somehow test a Crucial 2.5" SATA III SSD for stability without writing it to death. I've run Windows chkdsk, but it shows it good. Same with Crystal Disk and AS. But in actual use, I suspect there is an issue causing windows to suddenly slow to a crawl. Simple tasks that should be accomplished in the blink of an eye take minutes.

 

[USAFRet]

...one that would somehow test a 2.5" SATA III SSD for stability without writing it to death. I've run Windows chkdsk, but it shows it good. Same with Crystal Disk and AS. But in actual use, I suspect there is an issue causing windows to suddenly slow to a crawl. Simple tasks that should be accomplished in the blink of an eye take minutes.

What specific drive?

What seems to indicate poor performance?

How full is it?

 

[ManOfArc]

Crucial 2.5" SATA III SSD. Less than half full. As stated above, Windows crawls to a halt until I reboot. Sometimes that fixes it for a bit... sometimes it takes seemingly forever to get back to Windows desktop. Sometimes Windows crashes with a blue screen, white screen with a cryptic message about some storage issue.

 

[USAFRet]

Crucial 2.5" SATA III SSD. Less than half full. As stated above, Windows crawls to a halt until I reboot. Sometimes that fixes it for a bit... sometimes it takes seemingly forever to get back to Windows desktop. Sometimes Windows crashes with a blue screen, white screen with a cryptic message about some storage issue.

Which specific Crucial?
What specific error message?

 

[ManOfArc]

Actually, I'm not looking to troubleshoot the problem. I've replaced the drive with a new one and everything is fine so far. I just want to know if there is some way to verify the drive is bad before I smash it and recycle it.

When I still had it in service, I did a win restore and all was good for awhile. Then the slow-down problems began again. Last thing I did was a diskpart clean all, and a fresh install of Win. All was fine until a few days ago. Then the issue started happening again. That's when I got a new drive.

With the old hard drives, we could run some app that would block out bad sectors and leave us with a usable drive. It would be nice if something like that was available to use on a SSD. ' Cuz I'd like to keep it if it's fixable.

 

[USAFRet]

Actually, I'm not looking to troubleshoot the problem. I've replaced the drive with a new one and everything is fine so far. I just want to know if there is some way to verify the drive is bad before I smash it and recycle it.

When I still had it in service, I did a win restore and all was good for awhile. Then the slow-down problems began again. Last thing I did was a diskpart clean all, and a fresh install of Win. All was fine until a few days ago. Then the issue started happening again. That's when I got a new drive.

With the old hard drives, we could run some app that would block out bad sectors and leave us with a usable drive. It would be nice if something like that was available to use on a SSD. ' Cuz I'd like to keep it if it's fixable.

The Crucial Storage Executive software.

Crucial Storage Executive Tool | Firmware Download

Download the latest version of Crucial Storage Executive to get the most from your SSD hard drive. Includes information on storage used & drive health.

www.crucial.com

 

[ManOfArc]

OK. Ran CSE, but didn't do me much good. Apparently my drive is too old or too low-end for most of the apps in that program to work on it. All it did was return a healthy verdict like everything else I tried did.
But I did run Mini Tool Partition Wizard and did a surface scan that found a bad block with 3 errors: Surface Scan

Would a Full Format or Clean All mark out that block as unusable for future use?

 

[USAFRet]

OK. Ran CSE, but didn't do me much good. Apparently my drive is too old or too low-end for most of the apps in that program to work on it. All it did was return a healthy verdict like everything else I tried did.
But I did run Mini Tool Partition Wizard and did a surface scan that found a bad block with 3 errors: Surface Scan

Would a Full Format or Clean All mark out that block as unusable for future use?

And we still do not know which specific Crucial, or details about it.

Format or clean on an SSD does not do the same as it did on an HDD.

And from your MiniTool result...."Errors Found - 1"
That is trivial. There is nothing to "fix".