- Jul 18, 2015
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Somehow I managed to install windows 8.1 on this thing and set the whole computer up before realizing something was wrong. I've installed a number of programs and now suddenly it basically refuses to write anything to disk. It doesn't even seem to be a problem consistently, but it just hangs whenever I try to run system benchmarks on the drive through the Samsung Magician app. I first noticed this problem after installing steam and starting game downloads. Steam would download a couple megabytes of data and then stop while it spent five to ten minutes trying to write that data to disk (it literally said in the corner it was "writing data to disk").
Sooooo- does anyone know if there is anything I can do to fix this? Could this be the consequence of a faulty install? Some missing update? The firmware on the SSD says its up to date. Is this drive just broken?
If nobody else has any suggestions my next step is to go find a usb stick to install the samsung magician secure erase boot thingy on. I was told that if the drive fails that it is pretty much guaranteed to be dead.
I just have no clue how this thing is performing so poorly yet somehow managing to still run.
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Sooooo- does anyone know if there is anything I can do to fix this? Could this be the consequence of a faulty install? Some missing update? The firmware on the SSD says its up to date. Is this drive just broken?
If nobody else has any suggestions my next step is to go find a usb stick to install the samsung magician secure erase boot thingy on. I was told that if the drive fails that it is pretty much guaranteed to be dead.
I just have no clue how this thing is performing so poorly yet somehow managing to still run.
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