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Computer slow, programs crashing and frequent blue screening
Hello, I'm writing this from my phone because my computer is unusable for extended periods of time right now.
My primary hard drive (the one with my windows installation) is becoming very problematic. It started yesterday when I noticed programs randomly hanging and not responding so I decided to do a reformat and reinstall of Windows 8.1 which is what I was using followed by another full reinstall with Windows 10. Both reinstalls and reformats may no difference and the problem persisted. Except after Windows 10 finished installing the crashing and freezing was becoming much mute frequent followed by repeated blue screens of death which has happened about 4 times now in the space 3 hours.
I have had this drive (WD Blue 10EZEX 1TB) for just over a year and half and have two of them; one for Windows and programs and one for documents, music, pictures etc. In read benchmarks the Windows install drive gets a max of 140 MB/s with minimums of 1 MB/s whereas the second drive gets 185 MB/s max and 90 MB/s min. SMART values for both drives are fine however, but is it still possible that my Windows install drive is failing?
Specs:
1. CPU: AMD FX-8320
2. GPU: GIGABYTE R9 270
3. RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro
4. Storage: 2x WD10EZEX 1TB