Kenito 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 9:28
Problem with new SSD and Steam - write error
Hi! I bought a Lenovo LoQ laptop with rtx 4060, 16gb ram and a 500gb ssd.

Now I just installed a Kingston KC3000 2tb ssd, as a supplement to the 500gb integrated SSD.
I'm installing games via xbox gamepass without any problems, the disk works, I can use it and it's not a single problem, the problem starts when I use Steam and try to install to the new disk there. After opening steam and downloading a couple of GB's I get "disk write error" "not enough space", the disk becomes somewhat unavaialble with trouble accessing certain folders , can't see it in crystaldiskinfo, I can't scan it for errors or try and repair it. Now none of these problems exists before I open Steam, it's 100% working, untill I use steam to download games on it. I also tried Re-installing steam, removed mcafee antivirus, fixed privilige rights, removed read-only and so on, I tried running Steam as administrator, nothing seems to fix it.
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nullable 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 9:35 
Steam isn't able to cripple your disk or anything. This is almost certainly a disk error or related hardware issue. I'd look to see if there's any firmware updates for your disks.

I'd also say disks can fail in all sorts of ways and sometimes it's not immediately catastrophic.

I understand it "only happens with Steam", but sometimes correlation doesn't equal causation. And unless you find a lot of Kingston KC3000 users complaining about the same thing I'm skeptical Steam is doing anything more than exposing a symptom rather than it being a cause.
最後修改者:nullable; 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 9:35
Marble 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 9:50 
Might be worth installing Kingston SSD Manager which would identify any issues, including whether or not the drive is a fake.
Fake drives are basically just a tiny micro SD card slapped onto an M.2 board and hidden under a sticker or blob of glue. The firmware on the board is hacked to show a larger capacity than it actually has and to erase parts of the disk when it fills up, so it seems like nothing is wrong.
For example, the fake 2TB drive has a 16GB microSD card and you download a 100GB game. It will fill up that 16GB and then just keep overwriting the data while the drive contents table acts as though all files are present.

Hopefully that's not the case but the symptoms you describe could be the result of that.

The only other thing I can think of is antivirus or other security software conflicting and blocking a specific file. This would be the case if it's getting stuck on a specific game at the same point each time, but as you already said you removed Mcafee (which is already a sensible thing to do) then I'm not sure if that will help much either.
最後修改者:Marble; 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 10:00
nullable 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 9:56 
引用自 Marble
Might be worth installing Kingston SSD Manager which would identify any issues, including whether or not the drive is a fake.
Fake drives are basically just a tiny micro SD card slapped onto an M.2 board and hidden under a sticker or blob of glue.

This is another good option, I haven't seen it come up directly as the resolution to SSD issues too many times. But it can happen and I can remember at least one forum discussion I was directly involved in uncovering the fake SSD issue. Although the tip off in that user's story was they bought a 2TB SSD brand new for like $29. And that would be ridiculous now, but it was extra ridiculous few years ago. It definitely smelled fishy and led to enough research to prove that option out.


@OP So I think a good question might be where did you buy it from? And if from Amazon are you sure it was from the Kingston store?
最後修改者:nullable; 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 9:57
Kenito 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 10:05 
It is most definitly a genuine Kingston SSD, I'ts bought from a reputable dealer where I live so we don't have to worry about that. But good suggestion otherwise!

I installed Kingston SSD manager, it couldnt even detect the SSD, cause I opened steam 5 minutes prior to installing the manager, but did a reboot and everything is fine, shows good standing. 100% health.
Every problem I have with the SSD, begins with me opening steam and trying to download games, besides that the disk works flawlessly for hours and hours 100-200gb downloads, gaming, you name it, the second I open Steam and install 8 gb ish games it goes almost completely unuseable. Not detecable, games wont start anymore
nullable 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 10:13 
Well that is quite weird. You might see if you can find any evidence of other Kingston KC3000 users experiencing the same thing.

I do know there's a few SSDs that have crummy performance on Steam due to manufacturer configuration. But this is an order of magnitude more extreme. But perhaps there's some kind of drive configuration that can alleviate or explain the behavior.

This is definitely kind of a humdinger on the surface because it is so odd. Although I'm still kind of leaning toward drive issue. And at the moment it still feels like Steam is just exposing a symptom and not the cause. Although I'm open to additional information/discoveries. It's just my initial guess and I don't have anything better at the moment.
最後修改者:nullable; 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 10:13
Marble 2023 年 9 月 24 日 上午 10:16 
I would say the issue is most likely going to be some other app you have installed causing this, or the drive is just faulty, but since it works and shows up as healthy other times, I'd say it's likely to be the former.

I'm guessing it works fine if you install to your 500GB main drive? Have you tried installing to that and then using Steam's Storage Manager to just move the game onto your 2TB drive?

Another possibility is it's overheating and shutting off. Steam hammers disks pretty hard due to downloads needing to be decompressed.
Kenito 2023 年 9 月 24 日 下午 12:19 
Yeah everything works 100% on the 500gb, and everything except Steam works perfectly on the 2TB, but when Steam starts installing it goes into frenzy not working mode with all kind of weird errors. I even tried downloading extra 200-300GB from xbox gamepass games, no problem, opens and runs fine, but 8gb with any game in Steam and it's problematic.
Kenito 2023 年 9 月 29 日 上午 8:07 
Hello guys, a little update. I have no idea what happened, no updates, no anything, but I just restarted the PC and steam a ton of times, and "forced" the download, I kept trying to resume it, until eventually it just worked. And now I can download anything, with no problem, and it doesnt lock the disk anymore.... Go figure...
Kenito 2023 年 10 月 11 日 上午 10:02 
nvm, right back to behaving bad again, and now it does so even before opening Steam, so I guess we can blame this on the drive. Thanks again for the help guys.
Iceira 2023 年 10 月 11 日 上午 10:30 
You sure its right disk steam try to dl at ""not enough space" if it try dl to c-drev and you think its d-drev then steam is right there is no free space enoug.

This is know as steam wrong default disk, assume its c-drev , what i dont get it i get a option then install a game like choise among the multi disk, if you have litte space left then it will not give a choise, and maybe its here you have a steam error,

Have you tried rpare steam multi disk on both drevs, its all in the steam storage mangement.

ps.
do note i ill not or try not to repeat what above user helper already have explaned ,a dn why i reply in a difftrent point of view or solution,

Do note i have seen other user edit .vdf, files i dont recommened that ever, i try follow what steam crew up ways is or adjust to it.

if you cant transfer a game from steam lib c-drev to d-drev then thats the problem you most have had a crash, seen steam only see 1 c-drev maybe.

also seen before already start dl need a wipe that folder only .or clear dl cache.

if you dont graps all this ask again im suyre one of the other helper can explan it diffrently.

dont forget we other have seen crashed wrong default disk and steam switch it around even, that client can be seen as gboth good and bad then it do so. problem is if user like us dont know it can do that.


i also cant see if that new disk is internal or external , somelaptop can have more then 1 disk other cant.
Iceira 2023 年 10 月 11 日 上午 10:35 
Dont forget ask Lenovo, its a laptop all-in-one product support, they might want to know why it dont work.

even then it might be another disk with issue , that not same as say its a lenovo mistake , but the disk is attached to it.

and even if we solve it here, me or other helper im sure levono support want tip about it.
pretty sure you are not the only lenovo laptop user with steam client.
最後修改者:Iceira; 2023 年 10 月 11 日 上午 10:39
Kenito 2023 年 10 月 14 日 上午 7:43 
Okey guys!

New Issue, now the same error happens, on the other disc (main C from lenovo) while the second ssd i bought doesn't even show up in bios or in windows.

any suggestions ?
Harraga 2024 年 10 月 7 日 下午 8:27 
hey, did you fix that? if so, can you please tell me how? I'm currently facing the same issue with the exact same SSD… I haven't found any fix so far other than restarting my pc every time I get the Disk Write Error message on Steam. However the SSD stops working after downloading a game for 10-15 min. I've just updated the firmware through Kingston SSD Manager, I'll get back to you if the issue happens to be fixed
chill out 2024 年 10 月 7 日 下午 8:38 
Have you tried reinstalling Windows?
Some games' DRM can arbitrarily treat disks as storage and cause small bits of data loss/corruption, including to NTFS kernel drivers or other essential core Windows functions.
Harraga 2024 年 10 月 14 日 下午 9:40 
引用自 chill out
Have you tried reinstalling Windows?
Some games' DRM can arbitrarily treat disks as storage and cause small bits of data loss/corruption, including to NTFS kernel drivers or other essential core Windows functions.

yes I tried that and it didn't work. I think I resolved the issue by switching the power mode to "Best Performance" in Windows settings. I haven't tried to download a game yet but every other program that uses the 2nd SSD works fine. I can also play games such as GTA V for more than 3-4 hours on that same SSD.
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