Has my SSD just died?

[scaramoosh]

I bought it 3 months ago and it was working fine up to like a couple weeks ago where it just kept vanishing. I was playing a game on it and all of a suddenly game crashed and the drive vanished and I restarted which usually fixed it but now I'm getting this.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z189/slannmage/Untitled-59.png

It keeps asking me to format and so I do it just says error and vanishes again.

It shows up in BIOS perfectly fine but as soon as I try to use it the thing just vanishes from Windows.

Thanx.

 

[Eug]

Which drive? I'm curious.

 

[Andle Riddum]

At first I was like :hmm:
Then I was like:awe:
Got a brand in mind ()

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?:whiste:

 

[jimmybgood9]

RIP But, you should check all the cables. Reconnect them and make sure they're snug. Try a different SATA cable. Plug it in in a different jack.

I suppose it could be flaky power supply.

 

[Old Hippie]

Good luck with the RMA.

 

[tweakboy]

That is what we call a SSD RMA! gl What brand was it btw ?

 

[scaramoosh]

Got it working fine, installed a few things on it and all of a sudden like 6 hours later it stops working again with the same problem.

Also I cannot return it :\ Only been 3 months and ebuyer wont let me return it but I can return they Keyboard I got :S

 

[Zap]

Also I cannot return it :\ Only been 3 months and ebuyer wont let me return it

It is called a MANUFACTURER'S warranty for a reason. You need to send it to the manufacturer for replacement. You do NOT return it to the place you bought it from.

 

[scaramoosh]

Yeh but they take like a month reply, charge you for delivery and packaging and then make you wait another month before saying it works, send you it back, you have the same problem and you have to fight for them for a year to get anything. Where as ebuyer pick it up from your door step while dropping a new one off at the same time.

My problem isn't money, I need a new one now, fucking useless companies.

Teach me to buy anything on Sale.

 

[alfa147x]

Yeh but they take like a month reply, charge you for delivery and packaging and then make you wait another month before saying it works, send you it back, you have the same problem and you have to fight for them for a year to get anything. Where as ebuyer pick it up from your door step while dropping a new one off at the same time.

My problem isn't money, I need a new one now, fucking useless companies.

Teach me to buy anything on Sale.

Start buying from the right companies? Both Seagate and Corsair had me with new drives by the end of a business week.

 

[Eug]

So, what brand? I think most of us here have a specific brand in mind, but it'd be interesting to know for sure.

 

[jimmybgood9]

Let me meditate on what brand SSD this might be.

First I channel my connection to the universe

Ommmmmmm, then I
Clear my mind, and then, like I typically do, I fall asleep
Zzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Scoobyboo]

Let me meditate on what brand SSD this might be.

First I channel my connection to the universe

Ommmmmmm, then I
Clear my mind, and then, like I typically do, I fall asleep
Zzzzzzzzzzzz

hahaha... I see what you did there :sneaky:

 

[dawp]

Yeh but they take like a month reply, charge you for delivery and packaging and then make you wait another month before saying it works, send you it back, you have the same problem and you have to fight for them for a year to get anything. Where as ebuyer pick it up from your door step while dropping a new one off at the same time.

My problem isn't money, I need a new one now, fucking useless companies.

Teach me to buy anything on Sale.

buying it on sale has nothing to do with the failure, I've bought tons of stuff on sale and the failure rate is same as buying it for MSRP. I've even bought refurbished items at a large discount and they worked just fine.

Most retailers will only accept returns for 30 days at most, some even less. after that you have to deal with the manufacturer.

It is more likely has to do with who made the drive than the price you paid.

 

[ericloewe]

I must join the mob that wants to know just what SSD it was.

Something tells me nobody will really be surprised here.

 

[Old Hippie]

Buy a reputable brand (Corsair, Intel, Crucial, Sandisk, and on and on) from NewEgg and sell the other one after the RMA.

Last week I purchased a 120GB SanDisk Extreme for 80.00.

But I forgot.....you're not going to buy anything on sale. LOL!

 

[Grimshad]

You shouldn't buy any SSD in general as they are severely flawed and will fail at random within a certain timeframe of them writing every single block due to the fact that the blocks are clustered together and to write to any block you have to re-write the entire cluster. They also slow down to raid HDD speeds after a full write anyway, so there is no speed benefit of SSD at this time unless you buy a new one every month or so.

 

[hhhd1]

You shouldn't buy any SSD in general as they are severely flawed and will fail at random within a certain timeframe of them writing every single block due to the fact that the blocks are clustered together and to write to any block you have to re-write the entire cluster. They also slow down to raid HDD speeds after a full write anyway, so there is no speed benefit of SSD at this time unless you buy a new one every month or so.

I am pretty sure you are not talking about current generation SSDs, if you think that info is true, you should do some reading and get updated.

 

[hhhd1]

I must join the mob that wants to know just what SSD it was.

Something tells me nobody will really be surprised here.

+1

The screen shot he posted http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z189/slannmage/Untitled-59.png
is showing total size of 111.79gb, that is a common size of sandforce drives.

 

[thelastjuju]

buying it on sale has nothing to do with the failure, I've bought tons of stuff on sale and the failure rate is same as buying it for MSRP. I've even bought refurbished items at a large discount and they worked just fine.

Most retailers will only accept returns for 30 days at most, some even less. after that you have to deal with the manufacturer.

It is more likely has to do with who made the drive than the price you paid.

Actually there could easily be a connection.

About the same time OCZ drives started getting their bad reputation, people on forums all over reporting problems left and right, newegg ratings were becoming disproportionally negative.. all of the sudden, OCZ SSD prices dropped and became heavily discounted to entice more naive buyers.

Also, Grimshad's comment is terribly misleading.. it should be stricken from the record! His explanation would only be true for the very first SSDs ever made, wayy before TRIM and internal garbage collection were implemented.

 

[Old Hippie]

You shouldn't buy any SSD in general as they are severely flawed and will fail at random within a certain timeframe of them writing every single block due to the fact that the blocks are clustered together and to write to any block you have to re-write the entire cluster. They also slow down to raid HDD speeds after a full write anyway, so there is no speed benefit of SSD at this time unless you buy a new one every month or so.

That's Great! LOL!!!

 

[jobz]

I think Grimshad wrote his piece in jest. Read last sentence again, and his first name begins with grim.

Disappointed you don't call yourself Grimshaf!

 

[Old Hippie]

I think Grimshad wrote his piece in jest. Read last sentence again, and his first name begins with grim.

Disappointed you don't call yourself Grimshaf!

Well, Poop!

I was hoping we finally got a real SSD guru on the forum!

Come back Grimshad and show us the error of our ways! :biggrin:

 

[WT]

I must join the mob that wants to know just what SSD it was.

Something tells me nobody will really be surprised here.

He already did say, in an obtuse manner.

Ommmmmmm, then I
Clear my mind, and then, like I typically do, I fall asleep
Zzzzzzzzzzzz

It's not like we didn't know anyhow, we just needed confirmation.

 

[ericloewe]

He already did say, in an obtuse manner.



It's not like we didn't know anyhow, we just needed confirmation.

It wasn't scaramoosh who said it, though. Of course, I'd bet everyone here is thinking the same thing. Still, a particular model would've been interesting.