BSOD points to new samsung SSD! How to test?

mattyg · 25 May 2017 at 16:32

Hi guys

As Title really. Having random BSOD's narrowed down to wifi card. This has been disabled and no BSOD for 49 hrs (previously every day)
However in the error log has also been mention of the C: Drive
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation.

Just had another BSOD. IRQL NOT EQUAL etc

Error viewer says.
The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:

How do I test my SSD for errors.
I have samsung magician but cant find a fault tester..

ZXSpectrum · 25 May 2017 at 16:53

Is it just a standard 2.5" SSD or is it PCIe/Nvme?

If its the latter then I don't believe it supports those drives. If it is the former there used to be a drive health test in the menu. If you struggle drop on something like CrystalDiskInfo and that should be able to read the smart/errors from the drive.

mattyg · 25 May 2017 at 21:55

ZXSpectrum said:
Is it just a standard 2.5" SSD or is it PCIe/Nvme?

If its the latter then I don't believe it supports those drives. If it is the former there used to be a drive health test in the menu. If you struggle drop on something like CrystalDiskInfo and that should be able to read the smart/errors from the drive.

Sorry mate its a normal Samsung 850 EVO

mattyg · 25 May 2017 at 22:01

Dbl post

ZXSpectrum · 26 May 2017 at 09:23

Looks like the newest version of Magician supports the retail 950/960 drives now. But for some reason they have removed the diagnostic/health part of the software.

Try these: http://mashtips.com/ssd-health-test-and-performance-monitor-tools/

Apparently SSD Life is pretty good.