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:

...
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.
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:

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