Is my M2 drive dying?

[Dempsey22]

Hi all,

Recently when Ive been playing PUBG I'm getting strange crashes randomly during the game. I only figured out yesterday that when these happen, and I go to my steam drive (WDS512G1X0C) it doesnt show up anymore. If i reboot the PC it shows up no problem. Western Digital SSD tool reports its 100% healthy and firmware is up to date.

I checked event viewer and I'm greeted with these around the time of the crash.



You can see what the error says, and the warning says "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation"

Any have this with a drive before?

 

[mrbazmondo]

I've seen this before with a SATA disk when attached to a raidcard. It was a cable issue for me, but you're using M2 so its not that.
I'd make sure the M2 is seated well and has a good connection. Pop it out, clean off any dust around he connectors, then pop it in and out a few times to scratch the pads a bit.
If its not that, is your BIOS up to date?

 

[Dempsey22]

I've seen this before with a SATA disk when attached to a raidcard. It was a cable issue for me, but you're using M2 so its not that.
I'd make sure the M2 is seated well and has a good connection. Pop it out, clean off any dust around he connectors, then pop it in and out a few times to scratch the pads a bit.
If its not that, is your BIOS up to date?

BIOS is up to date, I'll remove it and reseat it to see if it helps.