SSD Usage goes up to 100% and system freezes up.

[Jared_Waldron]

Hi, I recently installed a brand new SSD into my system, and installed Windows 8.1 Pro on it. It runs speedy fast, my PC boots very quickly, and other praise about SSD Master Race. The problem I've been having is that randomly my SSD usage (in Windows task manager) goes up to 100%, and my system locks up. It happens for 25 seconds, then goes back down. I can't use anything during this time, although my mouse will still move. I have seen the processes running while this happens, and a generic "system" is at the top of the list. Any help is greatly appreciated!
EDIT: Forgot this, but system is extremely slow and unresponsive for up to a minute after restarting.

 

[mcnumpty23]

you mean your cpu usage goes to 100% or disk usage?

 

[Jared_Waldron]

you mean your cpu usage goes to 100% or disk usage?

The disk usage of the SSD.

 

[mcnumpty23]

nothing i have ever done has ran my ssd at 100% and made it unresponsive--thats why i thought you meant cpu usage

problem is system is too vague a process to make it easy to find whats doing it--and it probably wont let you end a process called system either

 

[house70]

this comes to mind:

http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/

 

[Jared_Waldron]

nothing i have ever done has ran my ssd at 100% and made it unresponsive--thats why i thought you meant cpu usage

problem is system is too vague a process to make it easy to find whats doing it--and it probably wont let you end a process called system either

it can happen when I'm playing a game, or just when I am sitting on the desktop.

 

[Jared_Waldron]

this comes to mind:

http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/

cool article, I turned off defrag on my ssd, we'll see if that helps, thanks!

 

[Wasdom Kung]

this comes to mind:

http://www.outsidethebox.ms/why-windows-8-defragments-your-ssd-and-how-you-can-avoid-this/

cool article, I turned off defrag on my ssd, we'll see if that helps, thanks!

I just did this for my SSD. After Windows updates it seemed to have started spiking to 100% randomly, usually when playing games but occasionally also when idle or doing simple tasks.

Did it work for you, in the end?