Weird SSD problems. Chkdsk clean. Hard disk cannot be found

[broseidon1]

Hey this is my first post. I've been working on this problem for about a day now with no luck.

My problem started when I was having 100% disk usage in Windows on SSD that was causing my computer to have major lag. I ran chkdsk /r /f from the recovery partition multiple times and each time it came up completely clean. I installed some software (Visual Studios 2015) overnight and just let it sit overnight. This morning I go to check on it and there is a flag that suggests disk maintenance. I reboot my computer to let it do its thing and it goes through the repair just fine.

The problem is, when it finishes repair it reboots the system and immediately enters repair again. I've been able to get to the recovery mode where I can access command prompt to run chkdsk and again it came up clean. I ran the windows startup troubleshooter and it said it could not fix the problem and gave me a logfile with this info

"Startup Repair diagnosis and repair log
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Number of repair attempts: 1

Session details
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System Disk =
Windows directory = C:\Windows
AutoChk Run = 0
Number of root causes = 1

Test Performed:
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Name: Check for updates
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 0 ms

Test Performed:
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Name: System disk test
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x0
Time taken = 31 ms

Root cause found:
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A hard disk could not be found. If a hard disk is installed, it is not responding.

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"

Multiple times I let the computer start up and go through its own automatic repair and complete and it would just reboot. I would then manually go through command prompt and run it again just to make sure and surely enough the file was clean.

I am writing this from the same computer, but from a different operating system (Mac OS X) on a different SSD.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[damric]

What model SSD is this? It sounds like the controller is bad.

 

[broseidon1]

What model SSD is this? It sounds like the controller is bad.

Hey thanks for the response. It is a PNY XLR8 240gb. I have a samsung SSD installed as well that has Mac OS X installed on it (Hackintosh config). In OS X I ran some benchmarks on the SSD and saw that it was writing at a rate of <10mb/s and reading at a rate of <30mb/s. From this I am guessing that the drive itself is faulty... Does this sound accurate to you?

Weirdly enough, I was still able to read data from the drive, just at very slow speeds, so I am unsure if this indicates a broken SSD. I have been using it for about 6 months straight with no flaws, so its interesting that it suddenly ceased to function well.

 

[damric]

I suspected a PNY. Let me guess, it came with a curiously low price or a huge rebate, right? The PNY (and Kingston) SSDs are notorious for bad controllers in a few of the models, but it's pretty much all of the PNYs. There should really be a class-action lawsuit. RMA the drive to PNY. They should send you a working one.