SSD(ead)

[Jayy]

Last night I powered the PC off and this morning tun it on and come back to "Missing boot record" and "Windows failed to find device".

After a few hours of tinkering about, it seems my SSD has given up the ghost. I pulled my GPU out and pulled all the SATA cables out and swapped several for brand new spare one's I had in the box.

Tried changing the power cables and swapping them for one's that were powering other devices fine but still nothing. The BIOS didn't even recognise the SSD.

The strangest thing is, whilst I had the sides off powering it on and off trying different settings, the SSD has a green and red LED on the back. Looks like it's getting power but it's not being recognised.

Don't know what to do with it now. I only ever store the OS on it and a few apps. All my work/files are saved to other drives so there's no issue with data loss.

I only just checked it with an SSD tool a few weeks ago and it said 100% life left in it.

Any ideas?

[el_oso]

try it in another computer would be my sugestion
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[CaNsA]

As above,

If no joy then its RMA time i reckon

[Jayy]

OCZ have a handy 3 year warranty as well.

Also, ebuyer.com is doing £50 off 120GB Agility 3 SSD so it's £100 odd

I will try it in the other machine, didn't even think it would make a difference because I thought, "If it doesn't work in here, why would it work in another".

[CaNsA]

check out buying from loadsa places along with direct from the manufacturer and see what they offer through quidco etc

i bought direct from crucial, got £25 cash back

edit:- i heard on the cyber grapevine that Intel are the ones to buy atm. Not sure if its for reliability or performance though.

[Seb]

Intel spent a lot longer developing their drives than many of the other oems combined, end result is that their sandforce 2 SSDs are running a substantially more refined firmware than those that rushed to market. The other vendors will eventually get the intel update made available, but it'll be exclusive for a bit yet.

As for Jay's drive.

Stick it in a sandwich bag, pop it in the freezer overnight, then plug it in, tap it with a rubber mallet whilst singing kum ba yah my lord!
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[Jayy]

You being serious Seb? My brother just said put it in the freezer too.

https://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2156979

Almost the same problem except mine wasn't put in hibernate mode... actually, I could possible have pressed hibernate rather than close down because I was really tired but I've NEVER done it before so not so certain.

I've also just had it in the other machine downstairs and it doesn't recognise it either

[Seb]

No =(

It's an old HDD trick, surprisingly effective in the days of stiction woes and bubblegum bearings
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[Rogerborg]

They all do that, mister.

You have backups, right?
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[Alpha-9]

I don't know about SSD, but i've had dodgy windows that suddenly stopped recognising my primary drive...

Have you looked in device manager/everest and such to make sure your PC definitely doesn't see it at all?

It could be that it's not showing in my computer but is actually still connected, which would show its a problem with software not the hardware
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[calyx]

Probably your mbr (master boot record) is fucked. Google it. There are some fixes. (didn't work for me but worth a try)
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[Alpha-9]

[Rogerborg]

Well, the conclusion of that article is that they're hotter than they are crazy, and any sane person is going to have a backup strategy anyway, it's just even more vital if you're running SSD.
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[Jayy]

[Seb]

[Jayy]

I've heard an SSD in a mac book transforms it completely. I'm hating using this spare SATA2 5400RPM drive already.

[Welshd1k]

SSD = POS never ever leave important stuff one one that isn't backed up! because TBH they all die ever so fast far to fast for my liking ill keep my 600gb velociraptors for now thanks .
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[panrider_uk]

We use fanless pcs (carbon fibre dust makes standard pcs go bang ) in our factory and labs. They are all ssd based and we've never had one fail yet.

Mark
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[Seb]

[panrider_uk]

[panrider_uk]

[Jayy]

I have 5 internal drives, each with different media on them. All my work is saved to a separate drive with no partitions and that's the only drive I backup to an external one.

The rest of it is replacable and if any of the other stroage drives fuck up, I'm not losing anything of major importance.

The SSD just had the OS on it and a few apps like Adobe suite and other day to day things. I will buy another SSD because the speed is awesome but I reckon Intel this time.

[FretGrinder]

Well, cheers ZXJay, my OCZ VERTEX 2 decided to die on me today, lol.

Got home from work this morning, powered on my pc and lo and behold I get the error about not being able to find a bootable drive.

I get this sinking feeling that the ssd has died, and sure enough, the red and green Led's are lit up.

I've had it since may last year, so it's still within warranty and I've submitted an RMA with the supplier.

I've decided to give ocz another chance by getting the agility 3 120 drive. It this one fails too then I'm definitely going with an Intel drive.
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[Jayy]

Gutted mate! Been slogging it out on an old drive for the past few weeks whilst I decide on what to get next. I bought mind around the same time, maybe same batch? Got mine from ebuyer.com

Anyway, I won't be going with OCZ again on SSDs, time to switch to Intel I think. The price is very tempting on the Agility 3's on ebuyer @ £100 for 120GB at the minute but I'm not doing it again!

I haven't got round to an RMA yet, let me know how you get on or if they try and suggest some kind of work around.

[CaNsA]

Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD CSSD-F120GB3-BK
£109.99inc. vat

https://www.ebuyer.com/268693-corsair-120gb-force-3-ssd-cssd-f120gb3-bk-cssd-f120gb3-bk