Firstly, hello! New poster to the forum 
Secondly, sorry if this is in the wrong place, if it needs moving then by all means shift it! Also sorry for what will probably be an essay, I just like giving as much info from the get go as possible to avoid a million questions from the get go and people possibly going off topic! (I'm used to how forums work ive just never been on this one!)
TL
R - 1 of 2 SSD's seems to crash, computer freaks out, have to reset it, loses a lot of into and passwords.
I keep having a recurring issue with my tower when I'm working, here's what I know so far...
I have 2 SSD's and one HDD:
(C - SanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD which houses my windows and some applications (mainly ones that don't give you a choice of storage space like office.
(D - SanDisk X300 512GB SSD predominantly for large or intensive programmes that I want to open quickly (such as all of my Adobe suite) and a fair chunk of my Steam library.
(E - WD Caviar Blue 3TB HDD which just holds everything else, music, photos, archives etc etc etc.
I also have 2 or 3 externals plugged in a lot of the time just because I have to move info around a lot so when I'm home they just go on the desk and get plugged in.
At random points and intervals during my day (and this can be multiple times in a day) I will be working on my computer with my performance monitor open on task manager, I cant seem to find a trigger that sets it off but my D drive will suddenly pin itself at 100% utilisation with 0 read or write showing.
At this point my computer just goes weird, it could be a case of that if I'm using prem pro it will crash and not come back or a game I'm on will suddenly freak out and I will have to reset.
Sometimes when this happens it will also stop any other programmes opening, the shut down/restart buttons to not respond or even for everything to freeze and nothing works apart from the mouse moving round. Naturally I thought SSD is dying or dead but it gets MUCH stranger than that...
The last couple of times this has happened ive noticed other things:
Scenario 1: I'm editing a video from my external HDD, the D drive freaks and prem pro crashes, I've done plenty of saves and know that its all on my external so after realising it isn't coming back I hit the reset button on my tower and fire it back up. go to reopen the project and it wont open because its "corrupted" or a file in it is broken etc etc. Whats more sometimes it will say this for the backup saves too. Then usually after a proper reset it will open again no problem.
Scenario 2: Doing whatever I'm doing, D drive freaks on the performance monitor, everything freezes, reset the computer. When it turns back on, some credentials or settings that I had set have been completely forgotten by the PC, My steam login will pop up instead of logging in automatically, my Prem Pro subscription will be logged out etc etc.
Scenario 3: Again doing whatever I'm doing, D drive freaks, computer carries on working relatively normally until I come to turn it off when it will just say "shutting down" for hours on end but never actually turn off.
These sort of situations can either happen separately or all together, I never seem to lose any data (not that ive noticed anyway) but it all just seems a bit odd. The PC has never blue screened it just does this.
I replaced all the SATA cables to check it wasnt that and have ran hard drive diagnostics etc through things like Speccy and all came back ok.
Has anyone ever heard of something like this and what the hell do I look for first?!?!
Cheers in advance!!!
Jack
Secondly, sorry if this is in the wrong place, if it needs moving then by all means shift it! Also sorry for what will probably be an essay, I just like giving as much info from the get go as possible to avoid a million questions from the get go and people possibly going off topic! (I'm used to how forums work ive just never been on this one!)
TL
R - 1 of 2 SSD's seems to crash, computer freaks out, have to reset it, loses a lot of into and passwords.I keep having a recurring issue with my tower when I'm working, here's what I know so far...
I have 2 SSD's and one HDD:
(C
- SanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD which houses my windows and some applications (mainly ones that don't give you a choice of storage space like office.(D
- SanDisk X300 512GB SSD predominantly for large or intensive programmes that I want to open quickly (such as all of my Adobe suite) and a fair chunk of my Steam library.(E
- WD Caviar Blue 3TB HDD which just holds everything else, music, photos, archives etc etc etc.I also have 2 or 3 externals plugged in a lot of the time just because I have to move info around a lot so when I'm home they just go on the desk and get plugged in.
At random points and intervals during my day (and this can be multiple times in a day) I will be working on my computer with my performance monitor open on task manager, I cant seem to find a trigger that sets it off but my D drive will suddenly pin itself at 100% utilisation with 0 read or write showing.
At this point my computer just goes weird, it could be a case of that if I'm using prem pro it will crash and not come back or a game I'm on will suddenly freak out and I will have to reset.
Sometimes when this happens it will also stop any other programmes opening, the shut down/restart buttons to not respond or even for everything to freeze and nothing works apart from the mouse moving round. Naturally I thought SSD is dying or dead but it gets MUCH stranger than that...
The last couple of times this has happened ive noticed other things:
Scenario 1: I'm editing a video from my external HDD, the D drive freaks and prem pro crashes, I've done plenty of saves and know that its all on my external so after realising it isn't coming back I hit the reset button on my tower and fire it back up. go to reopen the project and it wont open because its "corrupted" or a file in it is broken etc etc. Whats more sometimes it will say this for the backup saves too. Then usually after a proper reset it will open again no problem.
Scenario 2: Doing whatever I'm doing, D drive freaks on the performance monitor, everything freezes, reset the computer. When it turns back on, some credentials or settings that I had set have been completely forgotten by the PC, My steam login will pop up instead of logging in automatically, my Prem Pro subscription will be logged out etc etc.
Scenario 3: Again doing whatever I'm doing, D drive freaks, computer carries on working relatively normally until I come to turn it off when it will just say "shutting down" for hours on end but never actually turn off.
These sort of situations can either happen separately or all together, I never seem to lose any data (not that ive noticed anyway) but it all just seems a bit odd. The PC has never blue screened it just does this.
I replaced all the SATA cables to check it wasnt that and have ran hard drive diagnostics etc through things like Speccy and all came back ok.
Has anyone ever heard of something like this and what the hell do I look for first?!?!
Cheers in advance!!!
Jack
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