Folks, I have a SSD Samsung EVO 840 120 GB, with the latest firmware, using Windows 8.1 Pro-64 bit.
Over time (I would say months after I started using) I noticed the OS is acting strange.
1) Chrome browser does not open when you want it - Firefox always opens - after Windows is restarted, Chrome works again;
2) After you tell the computer to restart Windows, it only keeps loading and that's it. You need to push the reset button. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
3) Sometimes I have this error while trying use the scanner:
Along with Photoshop CC 2014. No file is generated (printer is using the USB port and it's an EPSON XP-204). I need to keep trying to see if the error ceases to happen.
4) I also have, besides the SSD, two Hard Drives. One is a 5-6 year old Samsung 750 GB (still working, and while it is there, it's not even being used for a long time), plus a new WD 1 TB.
HDTune screenshots from all 3 drives:
5) Windows Update freezes, you can't close the window, and interrupts your attempt to download/install the latest update(s).
What is going on? So many issues that is hard to believe this isn't the SSD itself defective, after a while working 100% fine.
The only thing I started doing very often, like EVERY SINGLE DAY was to use Photoshop to scan my books. I must have scanned hundreds if not thousands of times. And in each time I used the 600 DPI setting, which generates (always in the SSD drive) a 100 MB Bitmap file.
Do you have any idea why these things are happening?
I also used Windows to defrag all Hard Drives. I noticed when the WD 1 TB was fragmented the SSD became slower.
The boot time is very fast, there is no evidence of HDD failure. In the past when one of the two Samsung 750 GB drives failed, the boot took over a minute and things started to become very slow. This isn't happening, and like I said, it seems this is either Windows having problems or the SSD itself giving me a hard time after working just fine in the past.
Over time (I would say months after I started using) I noticed the OS is acting strange.
1) Chrome browser does not open when you want it - Firefox always opens - after Windows is restarted, Chrome works again;
2) After you tell the computer to restart Windows, it only keeps loading and that's it. You need to push the reset button. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
3) Sometimes I have this error while trying use the scanner:
Along with Photoshop CC 2014. No file is generated (printer is using the USB port and it's an EPSON XP-204). I need to keep trying to see if the error ceases to happen.
4) I also have, besides the SSD, two Hard Drives. One is a 5-6 year old Samsung 750 GB (still working, and while it is there, it's not even being used for a long time), plus a new WD 1 TB.
HDTune screenshots from all 3 drives:
5) Windows Update freezes, you can't close the window, and interrupts your attempt to download/install the latest update(s).
What is going on? So many issues that is hard to believe this isn't the SSD itself defective, after a while working 100% fine.
The only thing I started doing very often, like EVERY SINGLE DAY was to use Photoshop to scan my books. I must have scanned hundreds if not thousands of times. And in each time I used the 600 DPI setting, which generates (always in the SSD drive) a 100 MB Bitmap file.
Do you have any idea why these things are happening?
I also used Windows to defrag all Hard Drives. I noticed when the WD 1 TB was fragmented the SSD became slower.
The boot time is very fast, there is no evidence of HDD failure. In the past when one of the two Samsung 750 GB drives failed, the boot took over a minute and things started to become very slow. This isn't happening, and like I said, it seems this is either Windows having problems or the SSD itself giving me a hard time after working just fine in the past.
