Quote from: duckfeet on October 09, 2011, 05:28:27 PM

Any advice/criticism is welcome and appreciated...

Test your disk drive thorougly. Watch the EventViewer for possible errors.

It appears that you have an SSD primary drive. Be aware that bitcoin hits SSDs in their weakest point: it creates large log files that are never read.

I would just back up the system, do a security erase of the SSD (the tools are on ArsTechnica or some other technology enthusiast site) which will recondition its wear leveller maps, then reinstall ~~from the original Dell disks.~~ an operating system with TRIM support. I'm assuming that your SSD supports TRIM. If not, then it probably not worth using for anything important, unless you know exactly the drive access patterns and how to monitor its block failure rate.