Hardware Failure => Coincident?

[VR SenseiMatty]

I'm interested in the other 1%. What causes them?

Well, there are pieces of malicious software that can damage your stuff. I was purposefully not absolute in my statement in case there's going to be a nitpick who points that out.

Wrong!
The remaining 1% is rage quitting

 

[kilvenny]

Trashing 2 SSD's back to back would be unusual, so I think you have another issue. My late father was heavily into electronics and he would always advocate any project should start with a stable power supply that is unstressed. I would check the psu, named brand, age, is it running stressed ie look at the power draw of components. If this is a pre built system, have you added to it, pre builds tend to be specced for just that config. Odd things happen with psu's under stress or aging you can get fluctuations or drop of on one rail and not others. If that is fine then I would suspect motherboard.

 

[Ashnak]

Wrong!
The remaining 1% is rage quitting

https://imgur.com/FtEClfv

 

[Mrrshal]

EVEonline Incarna expansion famously caused numerous GPU to fry

 

[Crank Larson]

Wrong!
The remaining 1% is rage quitting

But that's user failure... As most things turn out to be.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

had a m8 who had an ssd drive in a cupboard burnt out so i plugged in and indeed it was not recognized, ran the required bios power cycle an hey presto
I said its working fine he said keep it as it was unreliable and could not convince him otherwise
one mans junk truly is another mans treasure

 

[Morbad]

Could be coincidental, but ED is a demanding game (I don't have any games that cause GPUs to pull as much power in unbound situations as Elite: Dangerous (even if they are much newer and look better) and it could easily be revealing weak hardware more readily than other day to day tasks. An iffy PSU could easily kill anything attached to it and dirty +5v in particular is going to be bad for SSDs (and motherboard chipsets).

 

[Kuckooo]

Several comments here about the importance of a good quality power supply, and I agree. Unfortunately, some skimp on the PSU when deciding how their rig is initially built so they can get the sexier GPU or other, which ultimately defeats the purpose. Always prioritize and get the absolute best PSU you can afford. Get more power than what you think you need. Thoroughly research brand quality, especially regarding capacitors. All very important, especially in accommodating future upgrades.

 

[Raino]

Several comments here about the importance of a good quality power supply, and I agree. Unfortunately, some skimp on the PSU when deciding how their rig is initially built so they can get the sexier GPU or other, which ultimately defeats the purpose. Always prioritize and get the absolute best PSU you can afford. Get more power than what you think you need. Thoroughly research brand quality, especially regarding capacitors. All very important, especially in accommodating future upgrades.

This!, while goin for an hardware update I usually check for lower pricing with all parts (choices are sometimes limited anyways) except the PSU. With the PSU, I ALWAYS go for high quality only...

 

[Bunkerkind Anni]

since everyone is bickering about the PSU - i got a beQuiet that had good test results when i built this machine.
i even used the calculator on their page to get the right size + extra for the components i put into the machine.
Around that time, there wasn't even a big pool of PSU's to choose from, since i had to get one that was "Haswell"-ready -> the PSU is not the cheapest component of this machine.

 

[Morbad]

since everyone is bickering about the PSU - i got a beQuiet that had good test results when i built this machine.
i even used the calculator on their page to get the right size + extra for the components i put into the machine.
Around that time, there wasn't even a big pool of PSU's to choose from, since i had to get one that was "Haswell"-ready -> the PSU is not the cheapest component of this machine.

Even a quality model can be defective or fail and there is no real way to test that things like transients or ripple without a decent oscilloscope.

 

[CMDR X]

Inspect your motherboard (and every other component) for puffed up capacitors. Most of the persistant BSOD's I've come across were because of them.

 

[Ashnak]

Inspect your motherboard (and every other component) for puffed up capacitors. Most of the persistant BSOD's I've come across were because of them.

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If your mainboard still has that type of capacitors (i.e. through-the-hole wet electrolytics) anywhere except maybe on the audio stuff in the lower left corner, chances are that you should replace it anyways if you want to play any game younger than 10 years

 

[CMDR X]

If your mainboard still has that type of capacitors (i.e. through-the-hole wet electrolytics) anywhere except maybe on the audio stuff in the lower left corner, chances are that you should replace it anyways if you want to play any game younger than 10 years

Plenty of modern components still use these el-cheapo caps, unfortunately. I see them every day.
Could also be defective ram for the OP.

 

[Morbad]

Like almost anything else, there are high quality and low quality liquid electrolytic capacitors and occasional defects even in otherwise high-quality parts. In general, I'd rather see a board with 105C Nippon Chemi-Con or Panasonic wet capacitors than no-name polymer ones.

Of course almost every quality board has used solid capacitors for the last decade, but this had more to do with marketing and economics than actual performance or longevity reasons. The transition to all solid caps accelerated dramatically after a bad batch of electrolyte made it into a bunch of Taiwanese capacitors in the early 2000s and caused a rash of board failures.