Hey everyone, I recently had my desktop checked out at a local repair shop. It's around 4 years old and has started freezing randomly for the past few months. After a few restarts, sometimes I get no monitor output, but after a couple of days, it usually starts up fine again. During the cleaning and diagnosis, the technician mentioned that my SATA SSD was degraded to 63% and suggested that this might be the reason for the freezing. They advised me to replace it with an M.2 drive, which I agreed to, feeling a bit confused about the whole degradation thing. I did some digging later and found a discussion suggesting SSDs are okay until they hit 0% degradation. Was it a mistake to replace my SSD, or is their diagnosis valid?
4 Answers
A failing SSD can definitely cause issues like freezing. It's good to replace it, especially since SSDs aren't too pricey and swapping them out is simple. Just unscrew the old one, customize the new one, and reinstall your OS!
From my experience, we always suggest replacing drives showing any degradation signs. But freezing could be caused by other issues too. If the SSD isn’t too full or heavily used, and you’re on a fresh install of Windows, you might just have some software issues. Keep learning how to do diagnostics yourself—it’ll save you money!
I've had SSDs for years with minimal degradation, but yes, a borked SSD will cause freezing issues. It's also easy to fix, which is a perk. But just be aware that sometimes the symptoms aren’t just about SSD health. Free space and clean installs could also impact performance!
You could run CrystalDiskInfo on the SSD if you still have it. It gives you a health report so you can see how bad it really is. Drives can perform alright even with some degradation, but they can start having issues too. No one can predict their exact lifespan, though.
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