>>Coming back tonight to do memtest, SpinRite on the SSD, etc..., Spinrite on an ssd is a terrible idea. It's an ancient program thats even a bad idea to use on hard drives.
It doesn't even work on drives larger than 1TB, because it was written in a time when drives were not that big. And there was no such thing as an SSD back then. Toss spinrite in the trash. If you want to know if a drive is failing, you just have to ask it. Just read the SMART info recorded in the drive. Memtest86+ on the other hand is a great idea, but you should let it run as many passes as possible. One or two passes is fine for new equipment, but with old ram that might be flakey, its best to run overnight or at least 4 or 5 passes. If the motherboard is 4 or 5 years old, you might check for swollen capacitors, and many of the low cost power supplies go bad in a year or two. A bad PSU will have swollen caps and burned components inside, but it can be risky opening it if you aren't a technician. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
