Weird SSD behaviour...

[Louscou]

Hello,

 

I encountered a new problem on my PC. When writing data on my SSD, it randomly goes to 0mo/s and stays there a while (but SSD usage is still at 100%). It also make the PC hard to use while doing stuff like copying files. This is very annoying. What can cause this? Is my SSD bad? Thanks for helping.

 

PS : Here's a recording of the issue: https://youtu.be/JLR5G3Ao8kM

[whispous]

What brand of SSD is it? It sounds like a DRAMless issue.

[Louscou]

 

2 hours ago, whispous said:

What brand of SSD is it? It sounds like a DRAMless issue.

It's a Crucial P3 1TB.

[whispous]

13 hours ago, Louscou said:

 

It's a Crucial P3 1TB.

I must be mistaken, now that I think about it, I don't think this issue would be because it has no DRAM. It must be something else, even though this drive doesn't have DRAM.

[Louscou]

So the problem could be something other than the drive? 

[Godlygamer23]

5 minutes ago, Louscou said:

So the problem could be something other than the drive? 

How full is this drive? Do you write and delete a lot of data to/from it?

[Louscou]

4 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

How full is this drive? Do you write and delete a lot of data to/from it?

The drive had around 600GB left. Also, I don't necessarily write a lot of things on it. Only my steam games and Creative Cloud apps. Although, I already reinstalled Windows 4 times since upgrading my system (got the drive at that time too), everytime I step on some issue with weird Windows bugs.

 

I already posted on the forum about it, and someone told me it could be a faulty drive... Link: 

 

BIOS update and another Windows install fixed the issues. But I'm now getting this while writing data on the nvme... 

[Godlygamer23]

3 minutes ago, Louscou said:

The drive had around 600GB left. Also, I don't necessarily write a lot of things on it. Only my steam games and Creative Cloud apps. Although, I already reinstalled Windows 4 times since upgrading my system (got the drive at that time too), everytime I step on some issue with weird Windows bugs.

 

I already posted on the forum about it, and someone told me it could be a faulty drive... Link: 

 

BIOS update and another Windows install fixed the issues. But I'm now getting this while writing data on the nvme... 

TRIM should already be enabled, but can you run it on your system using the built-in utility, and see if that makes a difference?

 

Can you also download/install CrystalDiskInfo and post a screenshot of what it shows here? Mind the serial number too since it'll be displayed in the program.

[Louscou]

1 hour ago, Godlygamer23 said:

TRIM should already be enabled, but can you run it on your system using the built-in utility, and see if that makes a difference?

 

Can you also download/install CrystalDiskInfo and post a screenshot of what it shows here? Mind the serial number too since it'll be displayed in the program.

Thanks for trying to help. Here is the screenshot :

 

 

 

[Godlygamer23]

1 hour ago, Louscou said:

Thanks for trying to help. Here is the screenshot :

Can you now download and install CrystalDiskMark to run benchmarks of the drive? Pick a size run of 8GiB because of the quick transfer speeds of the drive. The default profile should be fine.

[Louscou]

48 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Can you now download and install CrystalDiskMark to run benchmarks of the drive? Pick a size run of 8GiB because of the quick transfer speeds of the drive. The default profile should be fine.

Here are the results : 

No obvious issue is showing here if I get this right?

 

Edit: I tried another one after this. Thermals because of repeated attempts maybe?

[Ryker Robb]

2 hours ago, Louscou said:

Here are the results : 

No obvious issue is showing here if I get this right?

 

Edit: I tried another one after this. Thermals because of repeated attempts maybe?

Also, check the temps when this is happening. 47° at idle is a little on the warm side. There's also a nvme ssd driver on crucials site if you want to try that: https://www.crucial.com/support/ssd-support/p3-support

[Godlygamer23]

5 hours ago, Louscou said:

Here are the results : 

 

No obvious issue is showing here if I get this right?

 

Edit: I tried another one after this. Thermals because of repeated attempts maybe?

As stated by @Ryker Robb, check thermals during this stage. Even when it looks like it's doing nothing. You might have to keep refreshing it manually, but we wanna see if it's throttling.

 

If it's not, then my thought is the primary NAND flash might be causing delays due to defects. However, based on the screenshot of CDI, I don't think that's happening(no errors were reported).

[Ryker Robb]

There's two other people with the same problem right now. I'm wondering if they're connected somehow.

 

[Louscou]

12 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

As stated by @Ryker Robb, check thermals during this stage. Even when it looks like it's doing nothing. You might have to keep refreshing it manually, but we wanna see if it's throttling.

 

If it's not, then my thought is the primary NAND flash might be causing delays due to defects. However, based on the screenshot of CDI, I don't think that's happening(no errors were reported).

For thermals, I did put it back in yesterday to test it, without the MB heatsink. I went ahead and put it back on. The results are below, and the temps are:

 

Results (first run):

 

Second run:

 

 

9 hours ago, Ryker Robb said:

There's two other people with the same problem right now. I'm wondering if they're connected somehow.

 

That's interesting...

 

EDIT: I realized there are 2 M.2 slots on my MB. I tried to put my drive on the other slot (back of the board). It runs a bit hotter, but I have not noticed the issue since... Would that mean the first slot is the problem?