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| System Name | Klean |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.8GHz |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Strix B350-F |
| Cooling | be quiet! Dark Rock 3 |
| Memory | 16GB (2x8GB) GSkill Rispjaws V 3066Mhz CL15 1T |
| Video Card(s) | Saphire Pulse RX 560 4GB |
| Storage | Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB - Western Digital Elements 2TB |
| Display(s) | LG 29UM59-P - Freesync 21:9 |
| Case | Raijintek Thetis Window (Tempered Glass) |
| Audio Device(s) | SupremeFX S1220 |
| Power Supply | Seasonic FOCUS Plus 550 Gold |
| Mouse | A4Tech Bloody V5 |
| Keyboard | Alfawise V1 Mechanical |
| Software | Windows 10 |
Hey guys!
From time to time my 3 year old OCZ Agility 3 would freeze and refuse to appear on the BIOS. It could only be awaken by cutting the power from the wall and starting the computer again.
It all was "fine" until I started to get some weird hangs doing stupid tasks like browsing the web or folders (even on other drives lol).
I quickly run some benchmarks and discovered my read performance was BAD, and by bad I mean few KB/s worth of read speed in all block sizes. Rebooting fixed the issue temporarily, but then it got all shitty again quickly. Sudden blue screens would pop and the check disk utility would find numerous errors every time it ran.
As I had some important work on the schedule, I just went to the store and bought myself a Crucial BX100 250GB and used Acronis to clone the disk.
But even that didn't solve my problem! There were some bad sectors that could not be copied. I skipped them and hoped for the best, and I was lucky enough that nothing got damaged (not that I noticed).
The thing of bad sectors got me thinking, SSDs have those spare cells to replace the dead ones as they pass away, so maybe is this what is happening? The over-provisioning got to an end and now the usable cells are getting corrupted?
I searched on web about it and some threads about increasing over-provisioning were saying that if we create a smaller partition (say 100GB on a 120GB drive) the controller would recognize unused space and would use it to replace the bad cells.
What do you guys think?
From time to time my 3 year old OCZ Agility 3 would freeze and refuse to appear on the BIOS. It could only be awaken by cutting the power from the wall and starting the computer again.
It all was "fine" until I started to get some weird hangs doing stupid tasks like browsing the web or folders (even on other drives lol).
I quickly run some benchmarks and discovered my read performance was BAD, and by bad I mean few KB/s worth of read speed in all block sizes. Rebooting fixed the issue temporarily, but then it got all shitty again quickly. Sudden blue screens would pop and the check disk utility would find numerous errors every time it ran.
As I had some important work on the schedule, I just went to the store and bought myself a Crucial BX100 250GB and used Acronis to clone the disk.
But even that didn't solve my problem! There were some bad sectors that could not be copied. I skipped them and hoped for the best, and I was lucky enough that nothing got damaged (not that I noticed).
The thing of bad sectors got me thinking, SSDs have those spare cells to replace the dead ones as they pass away, so maybe is this what is happening? The over-provisioning got to an end and now the usable cells are getting corrupted?
I searched on web about it and some threads about increasing over-provisioning were saying that if we create a smaller partition (say 100GB on a 120GB drive) the controller would recognize unused space and would use it to replace the bad cells.
What do you guys think?
