as the title says, added a drive to my existing setup (never issues in forever) and i get 0-2 freezes a day. the new drive is the sn850x and it literally just sits in there because im spooked.
had 6/6 sata ports populated, took two drives off sata port 4/5 because they didnt show up in bios, i think it was loose power/sata because port 1 also did this, replugged all sata power and data to make sure and port 1 came back
google has maybe two posts of similar issue saying to replace power supply or drive, but if anyone has insight your comments are appreciated
edit light load being the computer, drive literally doesnt do anything just plugged in and formatted
Shared SATA and m.2 lanes. Usually a secondary m.2 shared lanes with SATA, so you had to choose between, say, SATA 5-6 and third m.2 slot. Check your motherboard manual. [edit]Just checked, SATA 4+5 seems to share lanes with secondary m.2 drive, but the SATA1 should be fine.[/edit]
You have too little RAM and the OS hits the RAM limit, especially with a fast disk like the the sn850 it is possible the write cache for your disk is set to 3-4 GB of RAM. It is 2023,16 GB is sadly not really good enough anymore.
The SN850 or one of the SATA drives are borked and sending a ton of interrupt requests, eventually borking the system as a whole as the IRQ buffer overflows.
No idea how to dig into this on Windows since I have been an exclusively Linux user since 2008, but those three are my main suspects right now.
Also… You have a five year old mid range computer, time to consider a Mobo+CPU+RAM upgrade. Also all mechanical drives below 4TB are now obsolete. When 4 TB SSDs exist under $150 there really is little to no excuse left. The 8TB is still relevant for another 18-30 months, until 8TB SSD creeps below $200.
[edit2]another thing worth looking into is SSD temps, could just be as simple as that sn850 require a heat sink.
I had the issue that these drives can get pretty hot and freeze when overheating. The expose a temperature sensor and you can track this theory on Windows.
Look for temperatures >60C as indicator for trouble.
My troubles went away once I added a heatsink to them.
thanks for the replies i changed the title to clarify im not reading/writing to the drive. temps are never above 45c says hwmonitor, i doubt the drive is sending interrupts at idle.
i think my problem is too odd and details too vague maybe. ive never been so stumped this shits killing me lol
Did you try running another OS on this? Might be worth it to run from a Linux live USB for surfing and light work a day or two, even a quick temporary install to help diagnostice. If things are fine in Linux a Windows fresh installation might be the cure.
thats probably what im going to do. new drive is healthy, memtest passed, this windows build is ancient i think its a 7 upgrade so theres a chance its killed itself somewhere along the way. i might necro this thread in a week or two with an update in case someone has similar issues and i find the solution
windows 10 usb will freeze when i try to click/keyboard through it, ubcd shows everything i can test is cool
think its a usb thing, since i get weird fps dips to actual entire freezes without crashing. i still really dont understand what makes it tick
my bet is on the bios update i did right before getting the drive, “critical security update” that i cant roll back. that or something power related that i cant track down
