Usually I have not seen too many problems with solid state hard drives. Although that may not always be the case. I have seen some that seemed to be having problems. Early on we did not seem to have any tools to test them to verify if they were defective or failing. There are some tools out there that I have seen as of late for testing the solid state hard drive. I am sure more will come out as time goes on and solid state hard drives come down in price and become more popular.
I looked around the internet and found a few different tools to test the solid state hard drives with. The first thing I would recommend is going to the manufacturer of the ssd hard drive itself. Some common brands are western digital, corsair, seagate etc..... The second place I found was from Intel. Intel has a toolkit for testing the solid state hard drives. It can be found at this link https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=18455 . It looks like it may do a pretty through job of testing and giving good information. My advise before doing anything is to back up your data to another hard drive. You could use a program like acronis to clone the possible failing drive to a known good hard drive. Here is some information on it from Intel below.
Detailed Description
The Intel® Solid-State Drive Toolbox (Intel® SSD Toolbox) is drive management software that allows you to:
* View current drive information for Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs), including:
- Model number, capacity, and firmware version
- Drive health
- Estimated drive life remaining
- SMART attributes (also available for hard disk drives and non-Intel SSDs)
- Identify Device information (also available for hard disk drives and non-Intel SSDs)
* Optimize the performance of an Intel SSD using Trim functionality
* Optimize the performance of an Intel SSD in RAID 0 using Trim functionality Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) 11.0 or greater.
NOTE: Trim on RAID 0 is not supported on Windows 8* or Windows Server 2012
* Obtain proactive notifications of new Intel SSD Toolbox software versions for Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems
* Update the firmware on a supported Intel SSD
* Run quick and full diagnostic scans to test the read and write functionality of an Intel SSD
* Check and tune your system settings for optimal Intel SSD performance, power efficiency, and endurance
* View your system information and hardware configuration, such as central processing unit (CPU),
chipset, controller name, and driver versions
* Run Secure Erase on a secondary Intel SSD
My best advise is to go to the intel website for further information. This software is only meant for certain solid state hard drives.
Here is another link to some hard drive testing software that will also test solid state hard drives. Just be aware I did see advertisements on their webpage for file opener and download manager. These are known programs that sometimes come in with malware, spyware and adware. Here is a link to the websight http://hddscan.com/ .
Once again I would check out the manufacturers websight first, because they will probably have some kind of software to test the solid state hard drive as well as others. Western Digital is a good example with their Data Life Guard Diagnostics software. This software will test most any hard drive. Here is a link to the website http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp .
Thank You for reading and I hope this information is helpful.
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