[SOLVED] Samsung SSD 840 EVO possible cause of system freeze?

[zeekstern]

My PC constantly freezes when playing games, when not doing anything, and whenever it feels like it. Some of the time I will hear a buzzing sound that lasts for maybe 15 seconds when it freezes. I put in a new power supply yesterday thinking that was it but it isn't. I have gotten a few BSODs but not many. A Win Defender Custom scan on the C drive freezes and never completes.

I built the system in 2014, so the SSD is over 7 yrs and I am thinking that is what is causing my issues. I ran a chkdsk /scan and it found no problems. It only took a few minutes which bothers me. I thought it would take a lot longer. A portion of the Samsung Magician Smart thing is:
Description Threshold Current Val Worst Value
Uncorrectable Error 0 100 100
Runtime Bad Count 10 100 100
Erase Fail 10 100 100
Program Fail 10 100 100
Used Resrved Blk Cnt 10 100 100

Do those results indicate a bad SSD?

My System Specs are:
CPU: 3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-4770K
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI HERO Rev 1.xx
Ram: 16GB- 4 x 4096 MB
SSD/HDD:
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB [Hard drive] (120.03 GB) -- drive 1, s/n S1D5NSBF251282H, rev EXT0DB6Q, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCC6Y0USRF1P, rev 01.01A01, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 2, s/n WD-WCC3F2222144, rev 01.01A01,
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 [Display adapter]
DELL S2721HGF [Monitor] (27.2"vis, s/n CMN9Z13, July 2020)
PSU: Corsair RM850x (BRAND NEW AS OF 8/8/2021)
Chassis: CoolMaster Cosmos ATX
OS: WIN10 VER 21H1 (OS Build 19043.1110)

Any and all help is appreciated!!

Zeek

 

[Secret-Squirrel]

A portion of the Samsung Magician Smart thing is:.......................Do those results indicate a bad SSD?

Those SMART values are perfect so there's nothing to worry about there.

The last freezing computer I tackled turned out to be caused by faulty RAM. Have you tested yours? There's a tester called "Windows Memory Diagnostic" built into Windows if don't have anything of your own.

 

[zeekstern]

Thanks Secret-Squirrel. I let it run about 2 hours and nothing was found. I'll run it all night and see what happens.