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This information may be of use to to any Samsung EVO SSD owners out there running windows 10.
I just spent all weekend with my PC in bits stress testing components trying to work out which one was causing windows to lock out every startup after 10-20 minutes. After a lot of head banging turns out it was just a firmware update that is needed for the SSD since the recent Windows 10 Creators update.
Other drives may be effected but Samsung Evo 840 is the only one I have worked with. This also highlighted to me a massive failure in Windows own event logging (or possibly my skills haha) as I was not able to see any helpful error pattern in the event viewer until i downloaded a third party tool.
damn you Microsoft...
I just spent all weekend with my PC in bits stress testing components trying to work out which one was causing windows to lock out every startup after 10-20 minutes. After a lot of head banging turns out it was just a firmware update that is needed for the SSD since the recent Windows 10 Creators update.
Other drives may be effected but Samsung Evo 840 is the only one I have worked with. This also highlighted to me a massive failure in Windows own event logging (or possibly my skills haha) as I was not able to see any helpful error pattern in the event viewer until i downloaded a third party tool.
damn you Microsoft...