I’ve had this PC since late 2017, perhaps early 2018. Got it from a close friend for so cheap that it was basically a gift. He had never had any issues with it, simply got a new PC, and my current one was struggling, so he sold the old one to me. I’ve never had a single issue out of it except one - it came with an HDD. I used it completely fine for about 4-6 months and decided to have the PC put in a different case. At the same time I bought an SSD and had a local computer shop plug that up, copy my stuff over and put the PC in a new case. Some length of time after that, about early BFA maybe? The computer started “acting funny” out of the blue one day. It’s state quickly deteriorated over about 3-4 hours and just started blue screening various error codes. The computer shop determined I had a bad SSD, they replaced. Cool. Fast forward another decent length of time, I get very similar issues out of nowhere one day. Same story, by evening time just blue screens. This time I had my cousin who does IT work for a living come by and diagnose, he says bad SSD. He gives me a spare one of his, we hook it up, all is well. That was only about 2 months ago. Today, same story. One of my apps wouldn’t launch, and my Logitech GHub couldn’t find my mouse/keyboard. My wife had used my computer earlier so I just decide to restore to yesterday. I never complete the restore, blue screens.
The old HDD has been hooked up this entire time and I have it plugged in now, it still works. No other component shows any sign of anything other than peak performance.
Why do my SSDs keep dying?
Assuming you don’t have some weird hardware issue…
What software do you use? Potentially some software doing some weird things and causing premature death.
Do you do any maintenance? Run x tool to perform task Y. Defrag/scanning/etc
I don’t really do any maintenance on it, I am not super computer literate. But literally the only programs I have (had) were WoW, Apex Legends, Discord, Logitech G Hub, CAM (monitoring program suggested by IT cousin) WoWUp (addons) and any games respective launcher (really just origin and battle.net)
I really strictly only use this computer for gaming, and storing things like my resume, some photos here and there, and some shopping on eBay/Amazon.
Can you list the specs of your computer and the drives that died, make and model?
I won’t be home for a good while and I don’t know all the specs off hand but it was built in… 2015? And apparently was very nice for the time but the brands are… Graphics is a 1080 GTX, CPU is an i7, gigabyte motherboard, 2x 8 GB Corsair Ram (I put that in when I got it, he kept the Ram out of it) I believe it’s a 80 Gold 1000W PSU, don’t know the brand. The first 2 SSDs were “King” brand 500 GB. This last one was uhh I’m not sure, probably a cheaper brand as it was given to me for free. The HDD I hooked back up and am using now is a 1TB Seagate or something
Not sure if relevant but it has 3 large fans in it, all work. Uhhh not sure what else there is in a PC that’s relevant. I believe I’ve been running Windows 10.
A major disclaimer to this issue is when my son started crawling around/walking, he would sneak into my office and flip the switch on my power strip, that the PC is plugged into. He did that probably 25 times over the PCs life, I’ve stopped that now, had to build and attach a wall to block access to the strip lol.
welp… sudden power loss can corrupt SSDs. Also, blue screens is usually a corrupted OS or software so maybe you can still format and reuse the SSD.