Broken SSD?? (32Gb Samsung SLC)

[Christo]

I have a Samsung 32Gb SLC, now I plugged it in the first time, it was recognised fine on my main rig, I benchmarked it then unplugged it (as I bought it for my netbook on order). Now I have the netbook, the drive just isnt recognised in the netbook BIOS (N310) nor my main rig. I just dont understand it. Is there an issue with SSD's and motherboards? Im very concerned, I think this drive is dead (I did buy it 2nd hand)

Can anyone help?

Cheers guys

 

[Prof. Cheese]

You configured it in Disk Management Christo?

 

[Christo]

You configured it in Disk Management Christo?

It doesnt show up in Windows at all, nor the BIOS.

 

[Prof. Cheese]

Tired a different SATA socket (assuming you have one)?

 

[Christo]

Tired a different SATA socket (assuming you have one)?

yeah I tried 3 sata sockets and different rigs. I've also tried HDDERASE 3.1, 3.3 and 4.

Are there known issues with motherboards and SSD's? I just updated the BIOS on my main computer but no joy, the BIOS still hangs for a while.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Sounds like RMA time tbh

Either that or return under DSR as DOA

 

[lemzip]

Sounds like RMA time tbh

Either that or return under DSR as DOA

Cannot DSR 2nd hand as im pritty sure it will will be over the day allowance.

Looks like its RMA time to the manufacturer, unlucky mate

 

[shadowscotland]

I got martin's other two samsungs - both are now ok, but it wasn't a straight plug and play.
one was pickup in windows (but with very odd partitions and 64GB) the second was a 'dynamic'.
both were in Raid (as was yours) so I guess that can give issues when breaking the array

Uses a bootable usb and ran HDDerase - but 4 didn't work on my P5Q
only 3.1 and 3.3 worked for me - and only with bios on IDE and compatabilty mode (didn't shown any of my drives first time)

WHen HDDerase did finally work (it had a good faq - like a noob I didn't read it first)
both drives were erasied and showed up in window fine
Formated via Disk management for a 10x boost in 4k speed.

Need to get the offsets done next - still using xp - but I struggled with these too.

What is odd with yours - is it did work (benchmarked) but now doesn't - very strange

 

[Christo]

Yeah I tried all three HDDErase versions, nothing is picking this thing up. Yeah the fact that it did work (albeit for 10 or so mins) really confuses me. I also tried the drive in a shop (tooking to CEX) - didnt work there either. Oh dear.

Thanks for the help though.

 

[Prof. Cheese]

Is your SATA mode configured to run correctly?