Is my SSD failing? (screenshots included)

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King Mustard

King Mustard

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I bought my drive Kingston 64GB SSDNow V Series SSD in September 2010 (just over three years ago).

I've had this a few times recently: My computer mouse would respond and current programs will sometimes appear (such as word processors) but opening new things caused a BSOD. This led me to believe it was the above drive as it's my boot drive.

EDIT: Checking BlueScreenView, it appears AsrVDrive.exe and ntoskrnl.exe caused the recent KERNAL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR /PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD. AsrVDrive.exe is something to do with my ASRock motherboard [:s]

Hard Drive Sentinel shows:

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SSDlife Pro shows:

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chkdsk shows:

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photonboy

photonboy

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The KINGSTON warning may be due to the drive being almost fully used (over 90%) with not enough space to work with. Unlike HARD DRIVES, you should have at least 15% unused. Samsung has a tool for their drives that simply OVERPROVISIONS this and hides it so you can't put data on it.

If you do decide to Secure Erase:

1) Create a backup Image (Acronis True Image if possible; free version if you have a Seagate or WD drive. Seagate names it differently.)

2) update the Kingston drive firmware

3) SECURE ERASE the SSD.

4) attach to a different PC if possible and run diagnostics on it (if it's still bad then send it back)

If you get a DIFFERENT SSD, my advice is a 120GB Samsung 840 EVO which is about $90 to $100 (and apply overprovisioning). You can RESTORE the backup Image though it's possible you would have to reinstall Windows if too much is corrupted already.
 
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