SSD Failing?

Puck

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I've got a 120 GB Samsung 840 EVO that my OS, Windows 7 Ultimate (without the language packs), is installed on.

of the 120 GB (111 GB actual) I had approximately 56 GB of free space.

I had a number of programs installed as well.

Anyway, I installed Passmark 8.0 to do a bench mark on my system because I installed 16 GB more RAM. I was just curious at how the system stacked up, I wasn't expecting any major improvements.

Passmark wouldn't finish, the DirectX9 Complex test kept crashing. At that point, I lost interest and uninstalled the software, deleted the registry values and leftover files associated with it.

I went back to my C Drive, and it then was listed as having only 21.6 GB of free space left.

My reaction:

:eek:

...

wait, wut?

...

Where the &#%$ did 34.4 GB go!? How... How did that... What!?

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Okay, So I looked everywhere for files, programs, malicious software, malware... Nothing. I couldn't find anything.


I re-installed windows. Before updates, drivers, or program installation I was already down to 46 GB.

After minimal program installation (Audacity, Steam (all games are on seperate drive), Adobe Premier, Geforce, Firefox, CCleaner, Chrome), all updates and drivers, 32 GB left.

Haven't done a disk check yet. But I will. I'm a noob, I panic-delete.

So, my questions are:

1) Has anyone experienced something like this before?
2) Can an SSD fail in this way?
3) Am I going to go insane?

Thanks guys.
 
In disk manager what does it say about your SSD? The only thing I can think of is that it's been heavily partitioned.
 
Well, I ran a disk check, everything seems fine. It was Disk 0 before the check... It's now Disk 3. Not sure why.
As for Disk Manager:

Disk 3 Basic 111.79 GB Online

System Reserved 100 MB NTFS Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)

(C: ) 111.69 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

Thoughts?
 
I'd get CrystalDiskInfo and have a thorough look at the S.M.A.R.T data, to make sure your drive health is as it's supposed to be.

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EDIT==========================

Okay, after some research there are things that I didn't realize that need to be disabled as you install more RAM and have an OS installed on an SSD.

Long story short; I learned something :)

Drive indexing, page file, hibernation, prefetching, write caching etc. I'll take the steps I've found and report back!

EDIT 2=========================

Okay after following a guide that I happened upon while googling, I was able to follow the steps and I now have 87 GB of 111 GB free. No issues.

The guide is titled "Can You Get More Space Or Speed From Your SSD?". Cheers Wraithguard! I appreciate the advice you offered!
 
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