Random 100% Disk Usage X370 Chipset

[AbrahamXY]

Hello everyone! I hope you had nice holidays!
I have been annoyed by this 100% disk usage for a year now and I am completely sick of it! I have read every article, reddit post and even LTT's posts on it with no solution. 

The computer Will lag upon using anything on one source and result in a random and weird 100% disk usage e.g: SSD (O.S + Most applications) HDD (Games) using chrome on the SSD won't cause the lag but playing a game WILL spike the disk usage. I have 2 HDDs, 1 M2 and two SSDs. At first I thought it was the HDD that was the problem but I was wrong. The reason is I switched SATA ports for both, resulted in a very long booting time (Up to 5 minutes) and using any application on the SSD or the HDD will return with a 100% disk usage. I kept doing that until the it booted fast and I tried the HDD and it was the same as the first case. I bought a 960EVO 1TB SSD this Christmas and low and behold...the same problem on the brand new SSD. It is not the HDD then.

What is the problem then? I googled everything with no real solution. I disabled SuperFetch, modified Microsoft AHCPI controllers. Tried many things in the BIOS. The only time it works is when I unplug everything except the O.S SSD. 
Throughout all of that time researching I have noticed a few common things with this issue, I will list them for you guys.
1- The spikes happen randomly, and they freeze the entire PC.
2- 100% disk usage with 0 reads and writes, I tried Resource Monitor...same poop different toilet.
3- Sometimes, switching SATA ports constantly might solve it temporarily, however; it will come back!
4- This problem is mostly common with X370 chipsets so far, at least from what I have seen from all the posts I had.

My specs:
* Ryzen 1700 @3.0GHz
* 32GBs of Ram @ 2800MHz
* Kingston UV400 SSD 256GBs (O.S), two WD Blacks HDDs 2TB and 500GBs, Samsung 850 M.2 500GBs
* GTX 1080 FE 8GBs
* MSI X370 GAMING PRO
* Windows 10 64 bit 1909 (Latest Update)

if anyone can help this I would be grateful.

[lodiabloc]

Hi,

I got a similar problem with my desk computer

I have a

- Ryzen 1700 @3ghz

- 32go RAM @3000Mhz

- MSI X370 gaming pro carbon mob

- 500go NVME SSD for OS

- 1To Sata SSD for my games and Virtuals computers

- 2x 2To HDD (in raid 1 soft with windows) for data

- 2x 500go HDD (also in raid 1) for others data

I have no freeze with windows (installed on the nvme), but when i play some game installed on my 1To SSD i got the same issue, randomly the spike appear and freeze the game i currently play (even the very old school half life). about 45 second later the spike disappear and the game continue like the freeze is not appeared (at the same state just like a pause)

 

when i store VM Vhd (from Hyper-V) in the 1To SSD, they freeze in similar way

by past i used hardware raid from amd raidxpert (mode RAID in bios) but the issue with my ssd forced me to migrate an software raid (I thinked it was a raid controller issue)
it solved the problem when I switched raid mode on AHCI in bios and making my raid trough windows (soft raid) but it recently appear again...

 

I also reduced my ram speed to 2133Mhz to check if this not a overclock/xmp profile failure, but even in base clock the problem appear.

 

my bios/drivers is up to date and i do the same problem on "fresh install" of windows (recently format)

 

 

[A.Hruskach]

Update storage device firmware if applicable. Most newer SSDs have software that can update their firmware and check the SMART status. I would recommend checking the SMART data first since it is not dependant on OS. This will give you disk statistics that you can compare to what Task manager shows. 

[JoshHendi]

Have you tried to watch Task Manager when the usage is 100% ? You should be able to see what program/service is using disk usage

[lodiabloc]

Hi, thanks for your reply

 

I checked the task manager when the issue appear, but it do nothing special

 

In fact when the freeze appear i can see an drop of CPU and GPU usage (check the screenshot for a example with fallout 4)

 

Normal state

 

when the peak appear

 

and graph view when peak appear, here you can see the drop of the cpu/gpu at the left of taskmgr.

 

 

I have already checked S.M.A.R.T. data with CrystalDiskInfo Kurei Kei-chan but nothing bad announced

 

 

I checked for an firmware update, unfortunately it seem PNY didn't deployed for my model of ssd (PNY CS2111 XLR8) in their official website, i sent a mail to their support to ask for it.

 

thanks for your advices

 

[Aragorn-]

tried a different SATA cable?

[lodiabloc]

Hi

 

Yes but still bad.

 

I got a reply from PNY : no firmware update for my ssd model from them (after describe the issue they think it was an ssd failure and need to be changed...)

my warranty is expired so I'm screwed up : / my last resort is to try with an other SSD and check if it same but i need to wait for some money...

[lodiabloc]

Hi

 

I'm back after changed my 1 To SSD. I got a crucial BX 500 with 1To and my problem seem to be solved (it installed since 2 month and the issue not appear again.

thanks all