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My Home-Built PC Crawls And Task Manager Says The External SSD Is Pegged At 100%

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  1. Sami Mendes
    @quietranger

    im literally losing my mind here after the Samsung SM-352F Firmware T906 update, my home-built PC became painfully slow. Opening the Start menu takes ages, and apps freeze for seconds at a time. Task Manager shows this:

    Disk 0 (C:) Active time 100%

    Disk 0 (C:)   Active time 100%
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    The external SSD sits at 100% active time, with barely any read or write speed. Response times are huge. Before the update everything was snappy. i'm wondering whether the storage driver is the issue or whether my drive is dying at the worst possible time.

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  2. Amara Mori
    @quietprobe

    hmmm back up important data first, just in case. Then check drive health: wmic diskdrive get status gives a quick result, and the drive makers own tool or CrystalDiskInfo shows SMART details like reallocated sectros and media errors.

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  3. Quinn Kim
    @qkim

    @cronotter what did u end up doing in the end

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  4. Amara Koch
    @cronotter
    in reply to @qkim

    yeahhh look in Event Viewer > System for disk, stornvme, storahci or iaStorAC warnings like reset to device or I/O retried, those point at driver or hardware timeouts.

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  6. Jade
    @jade_heap
    in reply to @router_fox570

    ahh classic pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo storage-driver from scratch good luck man!

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  9. Kofi
    @router_fox570

    ahh classic if its an external SSD, try a different USB port and cable. UASP issues can cause 100% active time with low throughput.

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  10. Tomas Rahman
    @tomas.rahman
    in reply to @router_fox570

    open Resource Monitor > Disk tab and sort by total bytes and response time. that shows which process is hitting the disk. if nothing is, but active time stays at 100%, suspect teh driver. hope that helps :)

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  11. Amara Koch
    @cronotter

    ok so my second monitor setup is officially haunted seriously need help here 😭

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  13. Amara Mori
    @quietprobe

    finally got it working, thanks everyone

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  15. Amara Mori
    @quietprobe

    respectfully disagree, i tried that and it made storage-driver worse. honestly just reset teh cable and save yourself teh pain

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  16. Amara Mori
    @quietprobe

    @tensor_den-zl works on paper, not in real life but hey ymmv

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  17. Ivan Tanaka
    @thread_hound-2en

    oof pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo ssd from scratch lmk how it goes

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  19. Ruben Jensen
    @daemon_monk

    ahh classic came here to say exactly this. reading this at 2am instead of sleeping, no regrets hope that helps :)

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  20. Kira Q.
    @kiraq106

    for me it was the thermal paste. swapped it and boom, fixed hope that helps :)

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