Extremely Low SSD Write Speed

[J0nnyNapalm]

I have a PNY XLR8 Pro 240GB that I have been using as a boot drive for about 6 month without issue, until yesterday.  I was watching a Steam download when my PC started chugging trying to do even basic tasks, so I rebooted.  Once it restarted it said that it could not find my boot drive.  After some messing around with the drive, I got it to recogize and boot into Windows, but something was wrong.  I ran a benchmark (Crystal Disk) on the SSD and it came back with a sequential write speed of about 500MB/s and a read speed of about 1MB/s (depending on the run, see pic).  AS SSD benchmark and copying files from another drive onto the SSD confirm the speed.

 

 

I have tried plugging the drive into different ports (SATA II and III) and am still having issues.  Other drives plugged into the same ports and controller are running fine and are benchmarking about right.  Programs and games will launch and run without issue off of the SSD (I am assuming because there is very little writing to do and read speeds are unaffected).  All temperatures in the case are normal.  Any idea what might be causing this or did my drive just die?

 

Specs:

ASRock P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

Intel i5 2320

8GB DDR3

PNY XLR8 Pro 240GB

PNY GTX 660 ti

750w PSU

Windows 7 64Bit

[elkenrod]

Space remaining?

[Geekazoid]

Heck! Never seen that happen before.

Sorry mate, kinda sucks.

[Tedster]

I'd back up ASAP then email PNY.

[J0nnyNapalm]

Space remaining?

 

127GB free.

 

 

I'd back up ASAP then email PNY.

 

I tried calling them but I don't think their tech support is open on the weekends

[cloclo8003]

Back all your files up. Now. It's probably dying.

[J0nnyNapalm]

Kind of figured it was dying but I thought it was worth a try, thanks all.