SSD keeps corrupting things on it

[Arcaddia]

So I have an SSD and HDD both the same age. S.M.A.R.T brings up nothing wrong for the SSD. But it does show Reallocated sectors for the HDD but the post isn't about the hard drive thought i'd just add that in. 

 

Evidence I've seen on the SSD consistently corrupting items on my SSD:

• OS supposedly corrupting 2 times, having to reinstall windows.
• Game that I regularly play had been on harddrive for nearly a year. As soon as I decide to switch it over to my SSD it says that the game files are corrupted and I must verify game file integrity almost every time I launch the game.
• Programs occasionally stop working as intended, have to reinstall.
• Chrome seems to be showing evidence of corruption, I deleted user profile data didn't make a difference.

So does anyone have any ideas? The 2nd bullet point made me super suspicious recently and what got me to make this post.

 

 

[-rascal-]

23 minutes ago, Arcaddia said:

So I have an SSD and HDD both the same age. S.M.A.R.T brings up nothing wrong for the SSD. But it does show Reallocated sectors for the HDD but the post isn't about the hard drive thought i'd just add that in. 

 

Evidence I've seen on the SSD consistently corrupting items on my SSD:

• OS supposedly corrupting 2 times, having to reinstall windows.
• Game that I regularly play had been on harddrive for nearly a year. As soon as I decide to switch it over to my SSD it says that the game files are corrupted and I must verify game file integrity almost every time I launch the game.
• Programs occasionally stop working as intended, have to reinstall.
• Chrome seems to be showing evidence of corruption, I deleted user profile data didn't make a difference.

So does anyone have any ideas? The 2nd bullet point made me super suspicious recently and what got me to make this post.

 

 

How old is the SSD?

S.M.A.R.T. is able to detect SSD errors/faults, but not all 100% of them.

I think Linus / Luke made a Tech Quickie video on this a few years back...

 

 

I think there was another video with Linus in it...don't remember..

[Arcaddia]

5 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

How old is the SSD?

S.M.A.R.T. is able to detect SSD errors/faults, but not all 100% of them.

I think Linus / Luke made a Tech Quickie video on this a few years back...

 

 

I think there was another video with Linus in it...don't remember..

It's 5 years old and it's the SanDisk plus model 240gb. I just find it so curious as first of all I got hit with 2 hard windows corruptions within 2 weeks of each other and it's been months since and it's been fine. However the other bullet points I've made are the things I've seen thats cropped up since that.

[-rascal-]

1 minute ago, Arcaddia said:

It's 5 years old and it's the SanDisk plus model 240gb. I just find it so curious as first of all I got hit with 2 hard windows corruptions within 2 weeks of each other and it's been months since and it's been fine. However the other bullet points I've made are the things I've seen thats cropped up since that.

 

Given the bullet points / findings you discovered, it sounds like a failing SSD.

 

My Corsair ForceGT 120GB SSD from a few years back literally just gave up one day.

No symptoms; working up until the evening when I shut off my computer, and dead the next day.

To this day, I've been still holding onto the SSD (bought it in 2010/2011, failed in 2014?)

[Arcaddia]

 

2 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Given the bullet points / findings you discovered, it sounds like a failing SSD.

 

My Corsair ForceGT 120GB SSD from a few years back literally just gave up one day.

No symptoms; working up until the evening when I shut off my computer, and dead the next day.

To this day, I've been still holding onto the SSD (bought it in 2010/2011, failed in 2014?)

I am most probably getting a new SSD this summer but if it is really something fundamentally wrong with the SSD i'm wondering if there's anything else that could possibly be looked into but when I think about it critically it is an old SSD at this point and S.M.A.R.T definitely isn't the be and end all of it. I just find it weird how my seagate harddrive has genuinely been fine compared to my volatile SSD which doesn't show anything on S.M.A.R.T readings compared to my HDD.