Question SSD drive dying

Sep 2, 2024
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Just over a year ago, I bought a new gaming laptop, an ASUS TUF and added an extra 2TByte (edited!) SSD (SNV2S). Just lately, I've had issues with applications crashing and misbehaving. I ran the system checks ASUS installed - but nothing showed up. Ran a memory test, again nothing. Tried doing a chkdsk on C: - works fine.

Tried doing a chkdsk on D: (the extra SSD I added) - it took 12 hours and didn't finish. I removed the drive and put it in a caddy to try backing it up - it ran so slowly accessing small files, I gave up trying. Contacted Kingston support as it's one of theirs and seeing what they have to say.

Kingston's own diagnostic software revealed nothing - the drive was 100% good. Same with Crystal Disk Info.

The symptoms are reading suddenly becomes VERY slow - intermittently. It's doing it in the caddy as well as the original system.

Up until recently I've had no problems with this drive.
 
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Sep 2, 2024
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I put it in a caddy on another machine, showed same issues. Just put it into another machine, again, running slowly and machine acting weird.