- Jan 6, 2021
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Hello storage forum, I'm in a bit of a dilemma.
I'm having serious trouble with my SSD or my SATA controller, I don't know yet.
I got this SSD and it's acting up I think. Windows is installed on it and most of the times when I put it to work the SSD seems to freeze and the system just becomes very slow and sluggish all of a sudden. Like programs become unresponsive but I can still move the cursor and open other programs, which will open with a delay. Whenever it does this I look in the task manager and the disk usage tab is capped at 33% and the program that uses the SSD barely gets over 10 mb/s usage. The HDD led also is constantly on, not blinking like it does when the HDD is working. Now, I don't know if it is exactly this SSD, I thought it might've been because it has no DRAM cache. but I had another SSD prior to this Patriot one which broke down. In its last days it's been doing the same thing like this Patriot one, even worse whenever it froze the whole system froze and usually BSOD'd. The new SSD didn't act up immediately after I installed, it worked just fine for the first few weeks and then it started doing whatever that is. Which is why I also believe it might be the on-board SATA controller. I also have a HDD in the system as I stated before and it works perfectly, with the same read/write speeds it had since the day I got it, never froze and it's also older than both SSDs. I replaced all my SATA cables because I thought it might fix something but nope. Already tried sfc/ scannow and it didn't detect anything.
So now I ask you fellow tech guys, what do you think it's the problem, the SSD or the SATA controller on my motherboard. I'll also attach some screenshots from Patriot's so called SSD toolbox with S.M.A.R.T. information.
At the moment I only got money to replace one part.
Some specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-S
HDD: WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm
SSD: Patriot P200 512GB
Current Windows: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 20H2 build 19042.685
I'm having serious trouble with my SSD or my SATA controller, I don't know yet.
I got this SSD and it's acting up I think. Windows is installed on it and most of the times when I put it to work the SSD seems to freeze and the system just becomes very slow and sluggish all of a sudden. Like programs become unresponsive but I can still move the cursor and open other programs, which will open with a delay. Whenever it does this I look in the task manager and the disk usage tab is capped at 33% and the program that uses the SSD barely gets over 10 mb/s usage. The HDD led also is constantly on, not blinking like it does when the HDD is working. Now, I don't know if it is exactly this SSD, I thought it might've been because it has no DRAM cache. but I had another SSD prior to this Patriot one which broke down. In its last days it's been doing the same thing like this Patriot one, even worse whenever it froze the whole system froze and usually BSOD'd. The new SSD didn't act up immediately after I installed, it worked just fine for the first few weeks and then it started doing whatever that is. Which is why I also believe it might be the on-board SATA controller. I also have a HDD in the system as I stated before and it works perfectly, with the same read/write speeds it had since the day I got it, never froze and it's also older than both SSDs. I replaced all my SATA cables because I thought it might fix something but nope. Already tried sfc/ scannow and it didn't detect anything.
So now I ask you fellow tech guys, what do you think it's the problem, the SSD or the SATA controller on my motherboard. I'll also attach some screenshots from Patriot's so called SSD toolbox with S.M.A.R.T. information.
At the moment I only got money to replace one part.
Some specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-S
HDD: WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm
SSD: Patriot P200 512GB
Current Windows: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 20H2 build 19042.685
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