Windows 10: Broken SSD causing BSOD?

I‘ve had a Crucial BX500 SSD in my PC for almost two years and it recently started causing it to freeze and BSOD.



WhoCrashed tells me that "ntoskrnl.exe" is causing it.

The drive has no bad sectors, it triggers the BSOD when mounted inside via SATA and also while in a USB powered external caddy.

But weirdly doesn’t cause any BSOD’s when it’s connected via a powered external caddy.



A Kingston SSD connected via the SATA connector works fine.



Could something inside the Crucial SSD that draws the power be broken?

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BSOD caused by ntsoskrnl.exe


The frequency could be the cause yes.

An HDD of 8 months isn't old at all, but not new either.
The average age of an HDD before it starts failing is a few years.

A BSOD has many causes depending on what the error code is like

• memory issues
  • non-volatile (HDD/SSD)
  • volatile(RAM),
• RAM frequency,
• dust,
• component not properly connected or wrong connected,
• broken connection, can be seen as not properly connected
• drivers out of date,
• overclocking,
• bugs in drivers
• GPU damage,
• PSU problems, but this would more give a sudden shutdown or reboot
• bugs in Windows (rare but fixable via SFC/DISM and Windows Update)
• Motherboard failure or faulty
• software not properly coded, in the past the Nvidia Streamer Service was giving problems and same with Google Chrome (Chrome could be still current)
• BIOS settings
• BIOS bugs

 

BSOD Hardware Caused???

they do weird things like that, which all seem like something else is failing.
One of the worst things to diagnose, they seem to only quit when they want to.

Memtest is a good next step, if you rule out RAM and Power Supply make sure you disconnect all unnecessary peripherals and try to start the system with as little hardware as possible, if it works then, you can narrow down the culprit by trial and error.

the follow was taken from some website:

It's very difficult to determine if a failure is caused by the CPU because many other components can cause the same symptom when they fail.

1. System fails to boot
2. System re-boots intermittently
3. General Protection Fault
4. Illegal Operation
5. Stop Error, or BSoD (Blue Screen OfDeath)

Actually, CPUs rarely fail, and about the only way to determine if the CPU is causing the failure is to swap it out with a known working CPU of the same type and speed. Since this is difficult, the best bet is to first rule out every other possibility.

Before suspecting the CPU, rule out all the possibilities listed below.

1. The Operating System
2. A peripheral port device
3. A bad memory module
4. The hard disk drive
5. The power supply
6. The motherboard

If you have ruled out out all the other possibilities, investigate the items listed below.

1. Overheating
2. A short circuit
3. ESD

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.