03-13-2017 10:21 PM
03-13-2017 10:21 PM
I have a M4 CT512M4SSD2 with firmware 0309. Just two days ago I started getting BSOD (bad_pool_header) mostly while opening and using browsers. According to Crucial Storage Exec. the ssd has over 33,000 hrs on it and is at only 2% of used life.
Question 1: Is the SSD going bad?
Question 2: Is it the cause of my BSOD?
Question 3: Is it getting to old?
Question 4: Should I try to update the firmware (It is my boot drive)
03-14-2017 01:50 AM
03-14-2017 01:50 AM
Could you please post your SMART data? It will show some useful information.
With CrystalDiskInfo use 'Edit > Copy' option, just please remove drive's serial number.
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03-14-2017 04:38 AM
03-14-2017 04:38 AM
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-w64-mingw32-win8(64)] (sf-5.43-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Crucial/Micron RealSSD C300/C400/m4
Device Model: M4-CT512M4SSD2
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWN Device Id: 5 00a075 1032c9e9d
Firmware Version: 0309
User Capacity: 512,110,190,592 bytes [512 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6
Local Time is: Tue Mar 14 06:16:29 2017 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (10235) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 39) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 3) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 33798
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 996
170 Grown_Failing_Block_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
173 Wear_Levelling_Count 0x0033 098 098 010 Pre-fail Always - 84
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
181 Non4k_Aligned_Access 0x0022 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 8661 1808 6852
183 SATA_Iface_Downshift 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
189 Factory_Bad_Block_Ct 0x000e 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 148
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 001 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 1
202 Perc_Rated_Life_Used 0x0018 098 098 001 Old_age Offline - 2
206 Write_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 100 001 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Vendor (0xff) Completed without error 00% 33794 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 33790 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 23888 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
03-14-2017 06:15 AM
03-14-2017 06:15 AM
There aren't any significant errors to speak of showing there. In fact the only error in the drives entire life is a solitary cable fault (UDMA_CRC_Error_Count)