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hello tom's hardware


is there a program or a way i can find out if my ssd is dying.

im using a PNY XLR8 240GB Solid State Drive i purchased it on 04/23/2014.

im using hard disk sentinel and it shows that the performance is 100% and the health is 53%.

http://i67.tinypic.com/262wfvo.jpg

it takes awhile to open programs and it feels really slow very noticeable that there is a performance drop.

i noticed that while moving pages from one monitor to another if lags and freezes for a couple seconds then resumes to pop up like it just appeared out of thin air.

even tho i have an ssd for the games i play the most it take a long time to load.

even tho my cpu and ram are no where near being used up.

last week i was able to run a game search online and watch a movie all at the same time no problem.

now it takes forever to open programs or folders or to even open google and my games drop from 60 fps to 0 fps making them unplayable.

i checked for bios update did a ram test to check for failing ram (memtest86) did a fresh windows install thinking i might have a virus (windows is completely up to date) and did a virus scan and im having the same problem and installed the latest drivers for my gpu

could it be something else and not my ssd.?

thanks for the help

my specs

cpu temps idle 29c max 55c

gpu temps idle 29c max 34c

asus p8z77 v-lx

i5 3570k @ 4.2 ghz

evega gtx 980 @ 1565 mhz

corsair xms3 16 gb @ 1333 mhz

corsair rm850 powersupply


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What I was wondering about was the variables. In any testing the key is pretty simple. Control your variables, eliminate them one by one and whatever is left, no matter how improbable is your answer (assuming sound testing methodology). You were on the same track with your questions in your original post.
Anything which tests your components one by one would do the trick. http://www.passmark.com/products/index.htm is free for a couple of weeks use. I haven't used it in a few years but as I recall it tests everything one by one. Sadly the most likely culprit remains your SSD. SSD's don't live nearly as long as hard drives. The benefit is their speed. If you have the means to backup the SSD, this would probably be a good time...
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open resource monitor and look for clues, you are probably dealing with a software problem. also review the windows event log, if there are problems with the hard drive you will see disk errors in the system log.
 
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Here are some free tools you can try:
http://mashtips.com/ssd-health-test-and-performance-monitor-tools/

But I think you should check other things just to be certain. In my experience heat is most often the cause. I recently open a PC and found a wire had fallen in to the CPU cooler and the CPU was thermalling (speed-step). Also certain types of malware can cause this as well as corrupt core OS files (have you run Malware bytes anti-malware? Not all malware is removed with a re-install, you know).

It would also be useful to run a few bench marks which test individual components to see which ones give poor results.

 
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thanks for the advise i coudnt find any errors or maybe i wasnt looking in the right place
 
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ok so i ran cinebench and heaven benchmarks and no problems there i did use crystal disk and it gives me the same info as hard disk sentinel.

i d/l crystal disk 5 and i got this http://i66.tinypic.com/219qhhx.png

and im running the malwarebyte now im making sure it does all discs
 
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What I was wondering about was the variables. In any testing the key is pretty simple. Control your variables, eliminate them one by one and whatever is left, no matter how improbable is your answer (assuming sound testing methodology). You were on the same track with your questions in your original post.
Anything which tests your components one by one would do the trick. http://www.passmark.com/products/index.htm is free for a couple of weeks use. I haven't used it in a few years but as I recall it tests everything one by one. Sadly the most likely culprit remains your SSD. SSD's don't live nearly as long as hard drives. The benefit is their speed. If you have the means to backup the SSD, this would probably be a good time for that.
 
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yeah sounds like your hardware (hard drive) is fine.
you are dealing with a software issue.
sometimes you just have to format the hard drive and start with a fresh install of windows.
 
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i used crystal disc mark and got this http://i66.tinypic.com/2j3pc35.jpg

waited a bit and got this http://i68.tinypic.com/11kgncl.jpg

did a chkdsk but there were no errors but i called the company and they are going to RMA it
 
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i got the exact same problem 2days now i try by fresh install win few time after 10 hours struggle i manage to fix it but wasnt for long next day it start again slow opening of folders and then it went longer and longer try the even logs there was only event 129 iastora like 5-10 of them i try to fix it as said in some guides by taking ownership but nothing then a friend told my to check my SSD , at the time i removed the PCI SSD with the win and just install the win again on the regular hdd so far i dont see any Signs of the problem but not sure if it was from the ssd only time will show .
 
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