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An SSD I have goes into read-only mode from time to time. After a few weeks of uptime, it will lock up the system and upon restarting everything is fine. The last time this happened it wasn't recognized by the BIOS, so I thought it was toast, but then came back to life and appears to be working as before.

SMART data appear to be fine except a few hardware errors recorded months ago that haven't increased since.

My first thought was to buy another SSD, then read that even hardware manufacturers suggest that this can happen from time to time and shouldn't be a reason for another drive.

What are your thoughts on this? My guess is that it's possibly a firmware issue.

An SSD I have goes into read-only mode from time to time. After a few weeks of uptime, it will lock up the system and upon restarting everything is fine. The last time this happened it wasn't recognized by the BIOS, so I thought it was toast, but then came back to life and appears to be working as before. SMART data appear to be fine except a few hardware errors recorded months ago that haven't increased since. My first thought was to buy another SSD, then read that even hardware manufacturers suggest that this can happen from time to time and shouldn't be a reason for another drive. What are your thoughts on this? My guess is that it's possibly a firmware issue.

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CrystalDiskInfo can tell you how much data has been written to the drive, and then you can check the manufacturer specifications to see if the drive is past it's lifetime.

If the drive is...

  • smaller than 1tb and
  • you write a lot of data to it
  • several years old

you've likely worn the drive out. This obviously heavily depends on how often you write data to the drive.