Have you had a SSD die on you yet ?

Discussion in 'SSD and HDD storage' started by WhiteLightning, Jan 31, 2013.

  1. WhiteLightning

    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    Well today my 3RD SSD went dead for me.

    1st was a Corsair P128
    2nd was a OCZ Vertex 2
    3rd my Crucial M4

    They all died on different mobo's. (x48/x58/z68) (witht he SSD tweaks , even pagefile on another drive.)

    I never had any problem RMA-ing, so doubt this time i will, but im quite pissed to say the least.

    It starts with hard lockups where i have to remove the sata cable from the drive, then when i put it back in it works again. but its already a sign of the drive dying. funny enough the crystal info program showed the drives at 100% each time. so the program is useless aswell imo.
    somewhat later , the drive will be stuck at sata detection (IDE/AHCI does not matter).

    Im starting to think that the SSD technology is very flawed, since this is the 3rd time, and ive much have purchased about 20 mechanical drives in my life, and there was only failing one!!

    So i was just wondering has anyone ever experienced SSD drive failing ?
     
  2. -Tj-

    -Tj- Ancient Guru

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    Well to be honest all those disks are a bit so so.

    If you had a lets say Samsung 830 or Intel 33x/ 520 in there then I might be concerned as well.
     
  3. pegasus1

    pegasus1 Ancient Guru

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    Dodgy PSU sending a spike maybe.
     
  4. WhiteLightning

    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    Corsair P128 http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/corsair_p128_ssd_review,12.html
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    OCZ vertex 2 http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/ocz_vertex_2_ssd_review,13.html
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    Crucial M4 http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/crucial_m4_128gb_ssd_review,16.html
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    Doesnt show so / so at all


    could this happen on 3 different PSU's ?
     

  5. -Tj-

    -Tj- Ancient Guru

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    Yes, but by todays standards they are a bit lower quality.
     
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    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    That doesnt mean they should die does it ? especially for that kind of money.
     
  7. pimp_gimp

    pimp_gimp Ancient Guru

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    I haven't had on die yet out of the 2x 180 Corsair Force 3's and 2x 240 Corsair Force GT's that I own.
     
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    -Tj- Ancient Guru

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    That's true but back then all SSD were quite expensive, maybe you just happened to have bad luck with them?

    Or probably dodgy firmwares, i know M4 had a lot of firmware issues, same goes for Vertex2.
     
  9. ibitato

    ibitato Guest

    sorry to hear ,white
    3 different ssds, three different mobos, no coincidence here
    at least, you got RMA option, you'd be really pissed off if they failed after warranty....
     
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    anticupidon Ancient Guru

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    In the first place , i am really sorry for you.
    Now,dying SSD is nothing new and it is a fact.Flash memory has its own flaws.
    Well,Crystal info uses SMART,and smart is making a prediction based on some numbers and tresholds,and it is failing at best .
    SSD are pretty new tech so SMART is rather clueless,or manufacturers are putting higher tresholds ,so SMART will not trigger any warning.
    So maybe we are not having the whole picture here.
    Just for the kicks,look for Scott Moulton on myharddrivedied or Youtube speaking on SSDs tech.i warn you,some info will change your mind about SSDs.
     

  11. ryoohki360

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    I have two, One old Intel SATA2 that is my OS drive, never failed me and i have a newer Kingston 240gb that i use as a Game drive for Steam..
     
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    My first SSD was a cheap Microcenter brand drive (rebranded ADATA) and about 2 months into using it, the BIOS just refused to recognize it.

    My new Intel drive has worked flawlessly
     
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    Yes, a MC also (ADATA S599 64GB) about wo weeks ago. The other three are OK, but I replaced them all with Samsung 830s ($60 each for the upgrade kit).
     
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    iancook221188 Ancient Guru

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    2 corsair x32 died within a month of each other i did fold on them for 6 months so that wouldn't of help they did not even have trim or garbage collection
     
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    Nope. I have a first gen Corsair Force ssd that is still working.
     

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    i'd definitely be looking at my power supply.............

    i have 3 SSD's all Crucial M4

    Back from when they cost a few bob a 64GB,then a 128gb and lately a 256gb i'm running Win8 Pro on

    they have all been updated with the latest firmware and i have not had ANY issues with Crucial SSD's :)
     
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    my oldest SSD is in my notebook which is a OCZ Vertex 2 60GB i carried it over from my old X58 rig and still works very well, 100% Health according to CrystalDiskInfo with 5415 hours ontime, great purchase and it's about 2 years old i think.
     
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    Chillin Ancient Guru

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    I just had my Crucial M4 64GB die on me after around 7,000 hours, original revision and latest firmware.

    Thank god Crucial has the best customer service I have ever dealt with and made the RMA painless.
     
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    I have a 128gb M4 running 24/7 since 2011 (may) with win8 pro (upgraded from win7 a few months ago) still running flawlessly

    The only measure ive taken was to turn off pagefile ( having 12Gb RAM and all ) and ofc, (duh) not downloading using torrent clients to the SSD.

    Also turned off hibernation file but, for drive space purposes only (12gb!), but it doesnt really impact desktop PC SSDs life that much, not to mention the pc was always on.

    Cant really tell what happened to your SSDs, but from my point of view, the SSDs dying so soon isnt normal. Something must be eating the flash memory life
     
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    Chillin Ancient Guru

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    Actually, Crucial must be experiencing some issues with first revisions M4 (at least 64GB's). When I was calling tech support, they started asking me a bunch of questions, but the moment I mentioned mine was Firmware 0001 revision and that it wasn't appearing in BIOS after leaving it on (unconnected) for 24 hours, they just told me to contact customer support and RMA it and didn't bother to ask me to do anything else off their checklist.

    I don't want to start a rumor here or anything though.
     

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