Should I be worried?

This applies to both desktops and laptops, so hopefully I can ask it here

I have a Kingston SSDNow V 64gb SSD that I use as a cache drive along with a 1TB HDD. Recently, I've been noticing momentary freezes in Windows when doing just about everything, that seem to come and go. Whenever these occur, the HDD light will remain on solidly until things pick up again.

My first thought was that I had a HDD problem. However, a full chkdsk of the mechanical drive (which took hours) revealed no problems. I then ran the same scan on the SSD, and it came up with "bad clusters." When I check in SSDLife, though, the drive has 98% of its lifetime remaining. It's less than a year old and I'm just using it as a cache - should I be concerned enough to attempt to get a replacement?

 

Could very well be an issue with the SSD. Can you yank it and put the cache on the Spinner?

 

I'm using Z68 caching, so nothing is actually stored on the SSD that's not also on the HDD. I have already disabled caching to try and track down the problem, I'll try to RMA the SSD this weekend then. I thought these things were supposed to be bulletproof.

 

if you use 64gb drive for caching, overprovision it first to let's say 50gb as JMicron controllers are really not happy with fully filled drive. That's the only way to limit size of caching for intel software to use.

 

Overprovision may help with speed, but I've never noticed a drop in speed over the year I've been using this. Wouldn't bad blocks/clusters be a hardware problem and nothing to do with how full the drive is?

 

I put the drive back into use after Windows "repaired" the bad clusters, and it started freezing again after about a day of use. Sure enough, more bad clusters. Back to Kingston it goes... has anyone had any experiences with their warranty service?

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