PSA: a drive stuck on 100% disk usage in Task Manager cost me 3 nights at a client's office in Toledo

Grant Nelson · 2026-10-27T01:30:03.964672+00:00

Turned out a dying SATA cable was making the SSD throw read errors, not the disk itself, and swapping it fixed it in under 5 minutes. Anyone got a reliable way to spot a bad cable before you start pulling parts?

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