Question SSD with Windows install constantly getting locked at 100%. Recovers with windows reinstallation then crashes again

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What is the issue? How do I fix it I’m starting to lose my mind.
I got an asus motherboard, rtx 5090, amd ryzen 9950x3d, 64 gb of ram, fresh install of 2 of 2tb ssd. They are basically empty and still no.
I thought it was drivers, manually installed only from the official site, didn’t install armory crate and other asus apps as i understood those were problematic.
Task manager shows no app taking over significant activity but the ssd is at 100%.
I changed slots, checked temperatures, ordered new ssds SAME THING.
The other times it crashed i was saving data from a 3d render. Checked the software, tweaked the files it no longer swarmed the ssd thought it was solved. Now I was mirroring my google drive to my pc ON THE OTHER SSD, left it on all night to do its thing, and the windows SSD decided to say bye. Although i was not saving nor moving from it.
Startup is extremely slow, cleanup doesn’t find anything weird, chkdsk says all good
I am at a complete loss
 
Task manager shows no app taking over significant activity but the ssd is at 100%.
If you open Task Manager, then Resource Monitor and click the Disk tab, you might get a clearer picture of what's hammering the drive.

Next, I'd be inclined to remove all disk drives apart from one SSD, switch off XMP/EXPO and install a fresh copy of Windows. Check Device Manager and install any missing drivers.

Then I'd run Hard Disk Sentinel and perform a non-destructive surface Read test, to check the SSD. This could take several hours.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html

I discovered problems this way on a bunch of brand new Lexar SATA SSDs used as Windows boot drives. CHKDSK showed no problems, but HD Sentinel slowed down to 17MB/s instead of 450MB/s in the surface read test.

With any luck, HD Sentinel will reveal any errors in your drives that are not immediately obvious.

If all seems OK, I'd fit the second SSD and start copying files and run a few programs. It wouldn't hurt to run a HD Sentinel read test on the second drive too. You might have a bad batch.

Finally I'd enable XMP/EXPO and run a full MemTest86 test. Even one error and your RAM is not stable.
https://www.memtest86.com/

If you can't get Windows to install on either drive, can you move them to another PC, or fit them in a USB/NVMe caddy and check them on a laptop with HD Sentinel?