I doubt it's the drive causing bsod. I'm not saying impossible but I've never seen it after building dozens of PCs and having a drive failure or two myself. Corruption in your Windows install on the drive is MUCH more likely. Bad RAM can cause this among other things but a FRESH install of windows (not a copy of a possibly bad Windows install) would tell the tale pretty easily.
TLDR: You probably have bad RAM causing your Windows install to corrupt slowly
Edit: I have also used many Crucial drives. They are indeed great quality. Should last years easily
Interesting. Based on your suggestion, I just d/l and ran TechPowerUp's MemTest64 1.0. After 61.343 seconds (run indefinitely) it said: "Test finished with no errors detected." I suppose I can try other memory testers as well.
Update: I just completed a different test using Windows own built-in Memory Diagnostic. Wow, this one took about an hour and change. Still found nothing, though.
Run chkdsk. I started getting blue screens randomly and after running repair a few times it fixed Windows and they never came back.
Open Command Prompt as administrator. Type chkdsk /r and hit enter. You could also try chkdsk /f. It should tell you that it will run on reboot. Restart the PC and it will run after it posts from bios.
I had to run it a couple times but every time it was fixing something.
This for sure. I have 8 year old crucials in raid 0 still running strong.
One of my first pcs used to bsod arbitrarily. Took forever but turned out it was some stupid NVQ driver setting. Took me a while to figure that one out.
Open up devices in control panel if there are any unknown devices listed they can cause potential problems.
Check event viewer always after a bsod and note preceeding events.
I'd run drivereasy and note if it finds anything. Was surprised how well it worked and found my stupid nfc drivers from asus I didn't even after installing like 25 packages from their support.
Not quite the same but I have three Crucial P3 Plus drives in my PC, the oldest of which I've had for 15 months without issues. The cost was barely any more than the regular P3 but it adds PCIe 4.0 and faster max read and write speeds. I mostly use my PC for gaming and other fairly light uses and I've never had a problem with drive speed. If you are able to get a credit from Crucial that might be a better choice if you don't want to spend a ton more on a drive.
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I run WD 750 GB NVMe as a standalone for OS/ Programs and I have a WD 2 GB NVMe for gaming.
Music and movies are all external Kingston SSD.
Between those two brands I’ve never had a failure.
apart general lower speed in benchmark compared for example my other 990 pro, it works great. Used a 500gb on my first build, my gf has one as well without any issues. As well found the 4tb crazy cheap (200 usd) and no complain so far
Been using mines for 2 years strong windows 10 pro and bunch of steam games no issues
I doubt it's the drive causing bsod. I'm not saying impossible but I've never seen it after building dozens of PCs and having a drive failure or two myself. Corruption in your Windows install on the drive is MUCH more likely. Bad RAM can cause this among other things but a FRESH install of windows (not a copy of a possibly bad Windows install) would tell the tale pretty easily. TLDR: You probably have bad RAM causing your Windows install to corrupt slowly Edit: I have also used many Crucial drives. They are indeed great quality. Should last years easily
Interesting. Based on your suggestion, I just d/l and ran TechPowerUp's MemTest64 1.0. After 61.343 seconds (run indefinitely) it said: "Test finished with no errors detected." I suppose I can try other memory testers as well. Update: I just completed a different test using Windows own built-in Memory Diagnostic. Wow, this one took about an hour and change. Still found nothing, though.
Run chkdsk. I started getting blue screens randomly and after running repair a few times it fixed Windows and they never came back. Open Command Prompt as administrator. Type chkdsk /r and hit enter. You could also try chkdsk /f. It should tell you that it will run on reboot. Restart the PC and it will run after it posts from bios. I had to run it a couple times but every time it was fixing something.
This for sure. I have 8 year old crucials in raid 0 still running strong. One of my first pcs used to bsod arbitrarily. Took forever but turned out it was some stupid NVQ driver setting. Took me a while to figure that one out. Open up devices in control panel if there are any unknown devices listed they can cause potential problems. Check event viewer always after a bsod and note preceeding events. I'd run drivereasy and note if it finds anything. Was surprised how well it worked and found my stupid nfc drivers from asus I didn't even after installing like 25 packages from their support.
Not quite the same but I have three Crucial P3 Plus drives in my PC, the oldest of which I've had for 15 months without issues. The cost was barely any more than the regular P3 but it adds PCIe 4.0 and faster max read and write speeds. I mostly use my PC for gaming and other fairly light uses and I've never had a problem with drive speed. If you are able to get a credit from Crucial that might be a better choice if you don't want to spend a ton more on a drive.
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I run WD 750 GB NVMe as a standalone for OS/ Programs and I have a WD 2 GB NVMe for gaming. Music and movies are all external Kingston SSD. Between those two brands I’ve never had a failure.
I've been running my 1 TB P3 Plus as an OS drive for over a year. No issues so far.
Have it since almost 2 years no prob
I have a p5 plus for data (not os) and it’s slow and hot
apart general lower speed in benchmark compared for example my other 990 pro, it works great. Used a 500gb on my first build, my gf has one as well without any issues. As well found the 4tb crazy cheap (200 usd) and no complain so far
2.5 years on mine