Vertex 2e borked, what now?

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Went bring the pc out of sleep mode this morning, and just froze.
Did a reboot and doesn't even recognise the drive in the bios at all anymore!
Been reading up and it seems a very common problem, between vertex and sandforce controller.
Tried swapping cables around and other drives.
Other drives already in pc work fine.
Asus p67p8, i5 2500k, 4 gig ram.
Not a happy bunny!
Is there anyway to fix it, rma, but don't really want another one of these, because it looks as if it's bound to happen again?
Or a different drive intel any better reliably?
Or is it the sandforce controller?
Hope for some help!
Thanks.
 
I would RMA it if you can, then sell whatever they send back so you can get something else. I haven't kept up with what a good SSD to get these days (still using my vertex 1 lol) but im sure someone on here can advise you on what to get.
 
Thanks for the quick reply.
Was thinking exactly what you said lol
Don't want anything to do with OCZ, look at their forums!
The Crucial drive uses marvell controller, I have that on this motherboard, is that any better?
Or Intel with Intel make sense?
Anyone?
 
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The crucial M4 is a great drive and often recommended round here as fast and reliable :)
Intel are also known to be reliable, but you tend to pay a bit more for them [the 520 series for instance, that does include 5years warranty mind!]

If it were me, depending on the budget, I'd get the Crucial M4 [infact, I have one!]

Use the native intel controller on the your motherboard as its better, doesn't matter which drive you use!
 
im using a corsair gt that uses the sandforce controller and have to say its been flawless,you should go for a sata3 drive seeing your mb has native intel sata3,sell your rma'd drive and upgrade to a faster/more reliable one
 
As above. Dont bother with the marvell controller and use the intel sata controllers on your mobo!

I also have an M4 but if buying again tomorrow it would be whichever is cheapest at the time out of the M4/Intel 520. Might also consider the Samsung 830
 
Thanks appreciate the replies.
Deffo be rma'ing if it doesn't get a hammer first lol
Should have said I will be after a 120gig. The vertex was 60gig, and filled up with win7 and bf3!
Is there no problem with other drives using sandforce controller then?
 
i think its early versions/ssd firmwares,i can only speak for mine and its ran great

but crucial m4
intel 520
vertex 4 as it uses indilinx controller
and corsair gt,not the ordinary force,they use poor quality asynchronous nand,the gt versions use better synchronous nand memory same for the drives listed above
 
cub123 said:
The Corsair looks good.
Somebody reports it going at speeds of 800 _ 1200 m/bs speeds!
Realistic?
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maybe in raid 0? idk
heres my scores with the 60gb model

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Just read on the crucial forums, someone with the same problem!
Does sleep mode and an ssd not go together?
Looks like Corsair it is...
 
Maybe that is what the problem was?
I left it at around 2 - 3 gig free only most of the time.

Anyway I have opted for the Corsair GT 120gig, won't be so limited with space.

Thanks for the help everyone!
 
You want the Crucial or the Samsung for reliability, or one of the older Intels.

The Crucial M4 is a Marvell controller and generally very reliable.
The Samsung is a custom 3-core ARM controller, reliable and fast.
The older Intels run the controller from the X25-M days, reliable but slower than a lot of the drives these days. The newer Intels run Sandforce and i've seen reports of BSODs with them so approach with caution.

[Edit] Oh, I see you went for a Corsair GT? Well, you were unhappy with your Sandforce drive being unreliable so you bought... another Sandforce drive? :confused:
 
he had older vertex 2e though,i think most if not all problems are fixed with newer firmware and sandforce ssd's
 
wazza300 said:
Sleep should be fine,you just disable it if your tight on space as it saves you around 6gb
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You should disable the hiberfil.sys file, as everytime you sleep your computer it copies everything from memory to disk aswel, so if you have a powercut, your windows session wont be lost
 
Phil2008 said:
You should disable the hiberfil.sys file, as everytime you sleep your computer it copies everything from memory to disk aswel, so if you have a powercut, your windows session wont be lost
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i havnt disabled mine,i did reduce my pagefile though,im still 22gb free on 60gb drive so im ok for the time being
 
If you power source is reliable, I would disable the hiberfil.sys as your coping the contents of your mem to your ssd everytime you sleep, and Im guessing that cant be doing the ssd anygood? Plus you computer sleep quicker.
 
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