SSD going bad?

[hazza7107]

Hi, so recently i have been playing battlefield 4 a lot, and since the other day i have been loading a 5-10seconds longer (I know this because im normally one of the first in), i currently use an SSD, but i did not download anything on it since it when bad, or before atleast a week before

 

[Chainzsaw]

What are your complete system specs (models, numbers)?

How much space is left on your SSD?

Is your page file on your SSD?

 

[hazza7107]

Specs are :
Radeon 7970
AMD FX 8350 (OC at 4.4Ghz)
8GB RAM
GIGABYTE 970

My SSD is a toshiba 120gb, and has 40gb free 560mb read 510mb write (Approx)

 

[Snipergod87]

Wasnt there a BF4 patch last week though, a 1GB patch?

 

[bjaminnyc]

You ought to run some disk benchmarks. BF4 load times are not sufficient to determine degradation in performance, for too many variables.

 

[hazza7107]

Im certain that it slowed down a little, and im talking 2 days a go

 

[Chainzsaw]

Can't really think of anything ATM, although BF4 is still so new...there are still issues with the game.

 

[hazza7107]

Its with more than Battlefield, i was just giving an example

 

[popatim]

Last week also had some large windows updates.
Whens the last time you let it sit at the logon screen to give time for garbage collection and trim to do their things.

 

[hazza7107]

AS SSD Benchmark 1.7.4739.38088
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Name: TOSHIBA THNSNH128GCST ATA Device
Firmware: HTGAN102
Controller: pciide
Offset: 540672 K - OK
Size: 119.24 GB
Date: 19/11/2013 12:22:02
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Sequential:
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Read: 366.01 MB/s
Write: 340.90 MB/s
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4K:
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Read: 16.27 MB/s
Write: 49.80 MB/s
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4K-64Threads:
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Read: 19.63 MB/s
Write: 74.34 MB/s
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Access Times:
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Read: 0.196 ms
Write: 0.077 ms
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Score:
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Read: 72
Write: 158
Total: 274
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[bjaminnyc]

AS SSD Benchmark 1.7.4739.38088
------------------------------
Name: TOSHIBA THNSNH128GCST ATA Device
Firmware: HTGAN102
Controller: pciide
Offset: 540672 K - OK
Size: 119.24 GB
Date: 19/11/2013 12:22:02
------------------------------
Sequential:
------------------------------
Read: 366.01 MB/s
Write: 340.90 MB/s
------------------------------
4K:
------------------------------
Read: 16.27 MB/s
Write: 49.80 MB/s
------------------------------
4K-64Threads:
------------------------------
Read: 19.63 MB/s
Write: 74.34 MB/s
------------------------------
Access Times:
------------------------------
Read: 0.196 ms
Write: 0.077 ms
------------------------------
Score:
------------------------------
Read: 72
Write: 158
Total: 274
------------------------------

You may in fact have an issue with the drive. I ran AS SSD on both of my SSD's this morning (ADATA & Kingston) and my scores were considerably higher with both while running other tasks (cable card live tv and 25 tabs open). Your SSD is connected on a SATA III header, correct?

 

[hazza7107]

Yes it is connectedto SATA III, randomly started going a little slower

 

[bjaminnyc]

Well, if you've determined there aren't any random background reads and writes going on then the thing may be on its way out. Not much you can do other than prepare for the potential inevitable. Fortunately it isn't a huge drive and you likely don't need to backup everything on it. However its never a bad idea in my opinion to image your SSD's so if you do have to RMA, you can mount the image and be on your way immediately with the replacement.

On my main computer and primary laptop my SSD lifespans have averaged just over a year. You may be fortunate in the fact you've identified degradation prior to failure, mine have just failed 100%. Completely dead out of no where. On the positive side its still running well faster than a platter drive so run it into the ground, then RMA for a new one. All of my RMA'ed drives were replaced with the newer model.

 

[hazza7107]

Its only 2-3months if its running bad after that amount of time without much use, then whats the point of it.

 

[bjaminnyc]

That's odd, and sucks honestly. At least you don't have a yr of random stuff on there to find and BU.

So you're going to have to determine if you want to wait for it to completely die, which may actually never happen, or investigate your warranty to see if your issue is covered and RMA.

With all the goodness a SSD brings it certainly does have more reliability issues. In my opinion they're still well worth the trouble.

 

[hazza7107]

They are worth the trouble? 2 and a half months, and if you are correct, broke, without half the use of a normal gamer, doesnt even get turned on daily.

 

[bjaminnyc]

Doesn't matter how hard the manufactures tries to manage quality control the occasional unit is going to fail prematurely. And, I may be mistaken but think Toshiba makes most SSD re-sellers storage chips. Therefore you went with a quality unit, just bad luck.

 

[hazza7107]

If it is bad, I can send it back, but its not a huge problem yet, just an inconvenience when playing battlefield (first people to load get the vehicles), if it gets an worse i shall send it back.