m.2 ssd issue

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So for a while i have had 3 m.2 drives fail on me but not fail in the sense i cant use them. the problem is randomly the drive will cause most games i play to freeze for 5 seconds before returning to normal and then freeze again for 5 seconds after a minute and do this for a few minutes. suddenly the games will run fine for a good 30-60 minutes, then sudden start having freezing issues again for another 10-15 mins on and off before returning to normal again.

In event viewer i get mostly event id 154 failed due to hardware error (only get this message 2-3 times during a gaming session even if my game freezes 5-10 times with in the hour) and on one occasion i had the drive retired error. how chkdsk finds no error, sfc /scannow finds nothing and the smart status is fine and showing 98% healthy with 16000gb writes and 13000gb nand writes. quite small for a 6 month old drive. also the last 2 drives did the same thing after 6 months each.

Could this be a motherboard issue?
 
Did you test overclocking with heavy tests run for many hours?
PC might not be completely stable with bit getting flipped occasionally.

Would recommend dropping CPU to stock for troubleshooting.
Having unnecessary variables is simply bad for finding problem.
 
nothing. disk usage is as expected in task manager. all drivers and firmware up to date. tempted to buy a gigabyte aorus pro z390 on here for £120 b grade
 
Call them or post in the customer service section of the forum.
so i have messaged them and waiting a response. but i did just have this, A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume C:. check disk fixed this but smart status still shows nothing.
 
so i have messaged them and waiting a response. but i did just have this, A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume C:. check disk fixed this but smart status still shows nothing.
I wonder if windows is the cause maybe formatt your pc and start a fresh but im not to sure.
 
A new motherboard seems a bit drastic but it could be some sort of software/hardware fault.

I agree it is a bit drastic but i have nothing else to go on.

The only thing that has not been upgraded or changed in this system since i built 2.5 years ago is the mobo. i still have the same issue. i just realised the first ssd (sandisk 500gb 2.5") that had this same issue 2 years ago, is still being used by my wife in her system right now and has been going strong since i built it last year. the intel 660p 2tb nvme i had before this wd m.2 ssd had the same issues but is working in a friends pc fine right now and has been for the last year. thinking about it, it's likely the mobo, maybe?
 
I agree it is a bit drastic but i have nothing else to go on.

The only thing that has not been upgraded or changed in this system since i built 2.5 years ago is the mobo. i still have the same issue. i just realised the first ssd (sandisk 500gb 2.5") that had this same issue 2 years ago, is still being used by my wife in her system right now and has been going strong since i built it last year. the intel 660p 2tb nvme i had before this wd m.2 ssd had the same issues but is working in a friends pc fine right now and has been for the last year. thinking about it, it's likely the mobo, maybe?
Would agree .

Fingers crossed you get the mobo for a £100.
 
Is the slot that you use them in a bit toasty?

Does the PC spend much time in idle (like true idle)?
the ssd has not gone above 40c and that was during the summer. also the pc spends around 60% of its time idle and by idle i mean browsing the web and listening to music while doing so. so i would say yes. right now the ssd is sat at 29c
 
Tried a different m2 slot?
Assuming you have a 2nd slot available
A pcie m2 card would be much cheaper to test than replacement motherboard
And much less hassle than motherboard replacement too
Assuming you have spare pcie slot of required speed
 
Tried a different m2 slot?
Assuming you have a 2nd slot available
A pcie m2 card would be much cheaper to test than replacement motherboard
And much less hassle than motherboard replacement too
Assuming you have spare pcie slot of required speed
i have tried both m.2 slots and both have same issue. the odd thing switching to another slot stops the issues for a couple hours then resumes same issue again.
 
so after 5 solid hours of trying to find the route of my ssd errors i found the culprit. ark survival evolved was the one game that would freeze regardless of what i did. after 3 hours i found that anything above 160 watts of gpu power usage would cause ark to start stuttering and then freeze more frequently the high my power above 160 watts would be. the same happened in fortnite and bfv. lowering my gpu usage to keep it under 160 watts in all games solved my problems. oh dear was my gpu on its way out? i then realised nvidia had a beta windows 11 driver (471.68) that i was still using and one other person reported the same issues as me. updated to latest driver (496.13) and all my issues have gone. even my ssd issues have been fixed. i turns out that my gpu driver was causing the freezes that in turn caused windows to believe that the freeze was an ssd issue. the driver was hanging my system up including cpu and gpu hence the false negative. so anyone else having a similar issue on windows 11 update to latest nvidia driver :)
 
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