Is My Ssd Failing?

I have a Lenovo G510 i5 notebook (orig. Win 8, upgraded to Win 10). About six months ago I purchased a Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD, cloned the original drive to it using Acronis and installed the SSD.

Everything worked fine until a few days ago when my browser and media player would suddenly freeze ("not responding") then start working again after 30-60 seconds; the Bluetooth streaming to my stereo also became very choppy. Last night, the system went to BSOD. Attempting to repair the system using a Windows 10 install USB didn't work.

I pulled the SSD, put in a spare HDD, discovered my Acronis backup was corrupt and finally reloaded Windows 8.1. The PC now works again with the spare HDD. I should also note this is not a virus/malware issue since I had a clean scan from IOBit Malware Fighter hours before the system crashed.

Now back to the SSD. I hooked it up using a USB adapter to my desktop PC and it initially showed all three of my partitions (main OS, recovery and music storage). Crystal Disk gave it a clean bill of health. When I came back a few hours later to start transferring a few files I hadn't backed up yet, the main OS partition still had a drive letter assigned to it but was showing as unformatted. I'm running Puran File Recovery now (fingers crossed) to see what I can get back.

Although Crystal Disk and SMART claim the drive is fine, I've seen failure issues before on regular HDDs that were initially missed by these.

Are there any other tests I can run to verify the drive's true condition? I don't want to reformat the drive, reinstall Windows 10 and spend hours tweaking things, restoring files and installing software only to have this happen again. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

I have Samsung 850 EVOs in both of my laptops. Samsung Magician may give you a better idea as to what's up with the drive.

 

Don't bet on this. I suggest you post required logs in Malware - Help (specialist) forum and let them do their checks for a better malware analysis.
See Run ME First Guide for procedure and needed logs http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index....ide-incl-spyware-virus-trojan-hijacker.35407/