SSD repair software?

[Tisy]

I've been getting occasional BSODs with KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR crashes. Reading some internet discussions such as https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1dsx... it seems to be page corruption and possibly a failing HDD. From the advice in the thread I've done the Powershell command check thingy and it's pointing to my C drive which is of course where my OS is installed. I've got a Crucial CT500 SSD. Can it be fixed with some software or is it knackered and needs binning?

[JoshSm]

Buy a new one, ideally yesterday, copy everything across from it, and avoid using it until then.

Once an SSD starts to fail it usually becomes very terminal very quickly.

[Mr Pointy]

^ This. Pay for Prime delivery & get it tomorrow.

[TonyRPH]

Spinrite can revive an SSD, but the cost of a licence will likely cost more than a replacement SSD.

So unless you need to recover any data....

[JoshSm]

Also for the next one look at buying something larger and/or with higher write endurance; that one was only good for 100 write cycles going by the lifespan matching the cycle count, which isn't much at all especially when it's only 500GB.

Web browsing, streaming video and all sorts of other stuff will burn through the lifespan of a cheaper SSD very quickly and you might not even notice until it pops.

[Griffith4ever]

That report says "good" and is similar to another one that is marked "good"

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/check-ssd-heal...

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[illmonkey]

Any drive in your computer should be fairly passive, so if you lose it, no problem. Regardless of the health of the drives.

Either get some online backup software or a NAS (or similar) so it's not a problem if any of the drives go, just swap it out and rebuild your OS if required.

For that example I'd probably do above and reinstall windows (after jumping through DISM and SFC), if it's still problematic, replace the drive. No point spending money on stuff you don't need...

[Tisy]

TonyRPH said:

Spinrite can revive an SSD, but the cost of a licence will likely cost more than a replacement SSD.

So unless you need to recover any data....

Thanks Tony/all.

JoshSn said:

Also for the next one look at buying something larger and/or with higher write endurance; that one was only good for 100 write cycles going by the lifespan matching the cycle count, which isn't much at all especially when it's only 500GB.

Web browsing, streaming video and all sorts of other stuff will burn through the lifespan of a cheaper SSD very quickly and you might not even notice until it pops.

I had no idea this was a thing. I've got all my important files already saved on a secondary smaller SSD in the PC so it won't be a catastrophe if/when this one dies. I've been getting the occasional BSODs for the past few YEARS actually but it always comes back to life and settles down for weeks/months before randomly doing it again. I've had a couple of people say it's more likely to be a dying RAM istick ssue or maybe very slightly dislodged in the socket.

To be honest I can't be arsed pulling it out from the cabinet and taking it apart to swap various bits to see which one fixes it, hence why I was a hopiing there was a 'fix my SSD' utility to rule out (or confirm) an issue on that side.

[eeLee]

What you could do is a full wipe of the SSD, I've done this because performance dropped. Rewriting the contents may fix the issue, you could also turn Bitlocker on and off and
I do own Spinrite but my machine is without BIOS and Spinrite needs BIOS at this time to run.