Windows 10: Spikes of 100% usage despite 0 read/write on a usb 3.1 external SSD

Hello, For a while I've been experiencing an issue with my external Sandisk 2TB SSD that causes it to spike to 100% usage for several seconds seemingly at random when I access a file, this will often cause freezes and crashes. I am positive it is not the SSD that is at fault as I have already returned it and got a replacement and the issue still persists.while the issue usually only lasts for a few seconds at a time it occurs frequently and makes saving/opening documents sometimes crash/freeze the programs I am trying to open them with The device is an Asus Zephyrus G14 GA401QM and connected b

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Spikes of 100% disk usage, 0 read/write speed on a new SSD and clean Windows 10 installation

This problem is apparently very common, but no solution I've found over the past several days has worked.

This past week I put together a new PC and installed Windows 10 on a Kingston A400 SSD. During normal use, I found that the disk usage reported in Task manager (seemingly) randomly increased to 100%, stayed there for 5-50 seconds, then dropped down to 0-1%
again. This causes any process running to freeze completely, only to be continued when the disk usage goes down.

The obvious next step: What process is using the disk? None. No process, neither in Task manager nor Resource monitor, is using the disk to anywhere near its full capacity during these spikes. Also, read/write speeds are reported as 0 MB/s during the spikes,
see image below.

The next obivous step: Find a solution on google. Haven't had any luck here, and I've found a lot of solutions. Disabling Superfetch (which does not exist on my system?), prefetch, Windows search, file indexing on the drive, Message
Signaled Interrupt (MSI) mode (supposedly not relevant since my disk doesn't use the StorAHCI.sys driver), etc. There are a lot of solutions on the internet. I've probably tried all of them at this point. Please hit me up with one I haven't tried yet,
if you know of one.

Other relevant info: There are no events in the system event log that appear to be at all relevant. No disk controller reset events or anything. I've tried updating and rolling back drivers, uninstalling programs, re-installing Windows. The SSD has got no
firmware update available.

Currently the system has a completely clean installation of Windows (through a bootable USB), with no third-party drivers installed. Not even the motherboard's LAN driver is installed, so I'm sure Windows hasn't sneakily installed any drivers
from the internet. The problem still exists. There's probably more I should mention, but it's getting hard to keep track of everything I've tried.

System info:

ASUS Prime Z390-a mobo

i5 9600K (not OC'd)

ASUS Dual GTX 1070 (in case that would be at all relevant)

Kingston A400 480 GB SSD

At this point I just want it to be a hardware issue, so I can send it back and get a new one, that works.

I would be extremely grateful for any sort of guidance, thanks





EDIT:

More relevant info: the disk is healthy according to Windows disk error checking and Kingston's own software. System memory is also healthy according to Window's Memory diagnostic.

 

Windows 10 Freeze, and SSd usage spiked to 100%

Hi, after i install a new SSD my pc randomly freeze, when i check in the task manager my ssd usage is 100% but with 0 transfer rate.

 

Upgraded to Windows 10 - Disk 0 Usage 100

I agree. This entire thread has appeared unproductive as this issue continues. The one point perhaps that has not been discussed appears to be that even though the disk 0 usage is at 100% the processes running never add up to 100percent. for example at 24%
usage there are 10 processes listed as using 0.1 mb/sec which totals 1MB /sec. from that one could assume that at 100% the processes may total 4MB/sec but I routinely see the system process spike upwards of 25Mb/sec and after any usage climbs over 7mb/sec
the disk 0 reads at 100%. also the running processes are never the same. there is no one process which creates the issue.

A better solution would be for Microsoft to explain the point and purpose of the disk usage, and how it is reported. it is reported at the top as a percentage and in the row as a transfer speed. (mb/s).

The question is what is up with that specifically, how do I determine the max transfer speed of disc 0, and at what point will system performance slow to an unacceptable user level? when it does what are the steps to take to identify and resolve the issue?