How do know when a SSD is going bad?

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Are there any utilities that can confirm if a SSD is going bad? I had this problem:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578772

I did a fresh install and everything seemed to be back to normal until the last few days. I've been getting BSOD's about an Inpage error. Right before one of the BSOD's a window popped up with the name of my SSD on it but that's all I got to read. My conlusion is the SSD is taking a shit on me.

Any suggestions?
 
I do not think prediction of SSD failure is possible most of the time because current SSDs do not appear to die because of NAND going bad but other component failure which seems to be from forums mostly catastrophic failure which I am not sure is well measured by the SMART data. I would still look at the SMART raw data and see if anything stands out however.

Of course if you can move your data off the SSD to some other device you can use badblocks from a linux livecd to test if the drive is functioning properly. This will write patterns to every sector on the SSD then read it back and determine if any sectors are different from the written pattern. You can do a non-destructive test but if you are having problems its best to backup first and do a destructive test..
 
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The Event Viewer pretty much consists of these 3 around the BSODs:

The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device Root\SIDESHOW\0000.
The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device Root\SIDESHOW\0001.
 
Haha yeah it seems to be connected to my G15 keyboard. Weird. I disabled a few things. I guess we'll see what happens.
 
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