X200 freezes every 1 second

[mt12345]

X200 + SSD + Windows 7

System freezes every 1 second for a split second. Pointer movements are not fluent and there is a metallic sound (glitch) in audio playback.
It's happening for hour or two, then it stops for couple of hours.
I reinstalled windows but it occurs again.
Is my Thinkpad dying?

[shawross]

Windows 7 has gadgets with CPU and memory gauges to indicate what resources are being used. This may or may not help analyse the problem.

[mt12345]

you mean resource monitor?

[dr_st]

Any ExpressCard adapters connected?

[mt12345]

nothing connected

[dr_st]

Start disabling the internal devices one by one (Ethernet, Wireless, Card Reader, Bluetooth...) and see whether the problem goes away.

[mt12345]

everything is already disabled in bios (apart from wifi).

[91011]

Do a search online for: SSD stuttering. Not an uncommon problem.
If you have a spinning HDD around, do an install on it and see if the stuttering stops.

[mt12345]

some gamers complain about 'stuttering' when upgrading hdd > sdd.
but in my case nothing changed in my setup in last year.

[mt12345]

Do a search online for: SSD stuttering. Not an uncommon problem.
If you have a spinning HDD around, do an install on it and see if the stuttering stops.

I did install on old 20GB HDD, connected SSD via sata>usb adaptor and I was playing mp3s and videos whole afternoon and evening.
No stuttering at all. So is it faulty SSD? Im not convinced. I could install ssd in another machine to find out but I dont have any at the moment.

[TPFanatic]

Devices do fail with age or time and SSDs are not immune. See about backing up your data maybe migrating it to a replacement SSD.

[shawross]

There are testing programs which should pick up problems. I have used https://crystalmark.info/software/Cryst ... dex-e.html before. But it does look like you will be purchasing another SSD.
If you go for a secondhand SSD test it immediately when you receive it using the above program. goodluck

[mt12345]

secondhand laptop + new drive, always.

[shawross]

If you buy a new SSD I would still recommend to benchmark it as a reference for later checks and to determine wear levels.

[mt12345]

does SSD performance decrease over time?

[mt12345]

So I found some old Toshiba L30 (pentium M, 1GB RAM) laptop, I put ssd and installed 32bit windows 7.
First glitch hit the speakers after 10min of mp3 playback and occurs randomly every 1-5 minutes.
Looks look my old X200 is still fine.
Thanks for help!

[mt12345]

I opened the ssd and it turned out there are two nand chips inside (2x64gb).
Assuming that the first one is faulty, I created 55gb partition at the end of disk, installed windows, filled the partition with random stuff up to 75% and carried on working for 2 days.
No stuttering at all.
Then I created second partition on remaining space, filled with mp3s, moved temporary and cache folders there, did hundreds i/o operations (converting wavs and mp3s).
Still no stuttering.
Last night I went back to the old scheme (one partition), installed windows, so far so good.