[UPDATED!!] Is cheap SSD the cause of random freezes in my system? / SSD lifespan

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Azevedo

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Hi,

A year ago I bought this Samdisk 120Gb SSD drive.
The speed of disk access and concurrency of disk access have improved compared to the old HDD.
I disabled disk caching services/prefetch and options so the disk lasts longer. I'm using it for a year now, only for the operating system and programs.

CPU i7, Windows 10 x64, Asus mainboard, 8Gb RAM.

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However, since a month ago I've been experiencing random freezes when accessing programs. Everything halts: the screen freezes for about 10 to 15 seconds.

To rule out any other causes I used some monitoring programs to check if any program or Windows services were on heavy duty on the SSD. Thats not it. It is definetily the SSD. I formated both partitions on the SSD and installed Windows 10 x64 from scratch. Still random freezes.

The freezes only happens on launching apps for the 1st time after booting up. For example, if I launch Photoshop and it freezes up those 15s, the freeze for Photoshop won't happen again until I restart the computer, but it may happen when launching other programs for the first time after reboot.

Others HDD in the system won't cause system freezes.

We all know SSDs have a limited lifespan. But how short is that? Is there a program out there to check if the SSD flash memory have too many wore off cells? Does Samdisk cheap memory have a short lifespan?

Did anybody else have this similar issue?

 
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Install a program to read the SMART codes (I use acronis drive monitor myself). Check and see if there are issues with some of the blocks starting to fail. SSD's do have limited lifetime - I just recently had to replace my gf's Samsung mSATA SSD due to program block failures and her computer is right around 4-5 years old.

You're looking for 'program fail count', 'reallocated sectors count', 'erase fail count', 'wear leveling count'. Those indicate either failures or pending failure.
 
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Wanna play, gotta pay. I personally prefer Samsung and Crucial for my SSDs, anything else can be a bit iffy. That being said, your SSD looks perfectly fine, as in no errors which would account for the freezing.

I have one of the Sandisk SDSSDP128G drives in my work computer. Complete budget drive, but it's MLC based and it doesn't space out like yours does. Have you checked the firmware and/or updated it? (btw, update firmware at your own risk!)

Oh, and one other thing. Try doing this as perhaps it might not be your SSD doing it.

Open up your task manager, and get to where you can monitor a few things like disk usage/cpu usage etc. When you open some software after a reboot, that's when it glitches, right? So - watch your computer usage (cpu/disk) while it's doing it and you should see -something- spike to 100%. Let us know what it is.
 
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Azevedo

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The firmware is up to date. I've already check for any background process. That's not it.
It looks like the access through the SSD's SATA interface gets frozen and freezes everything else. It always take those 10s.
Some days, it goes all day long without happening, others may happen 4x in a day.
 
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