Bad SSD?

misterjingo · 6 Oct 2013 at 11:04

I bought a Samsung 840 Pro yesterday to put windows 7 on.
The first install kept erroring during the first update. After repeatedly applying the updates, and after multiple resets. Things finally seemed to be ok.
I noticed that I'd put the drive in a sata2 port, so switched it to a 3. This caused windows to take 1 minute+ to load up. After messing around trying to get it working, I gave up and reinstalled.

Second reinstall had the same issues as the first. Also, any large download would be corrupt. If I save the download to a normal HDD it's fine.

I have had a couple of freezes too (a reboot sorted them out.)

The Samsung Magician software is showing everything as being ok (and the speed of the SSD is great.)

I'm not OC'ing and have had no issues prior to yesterday morning (so don't see it being a memory or hardware issue.)

Should I just RMA the SSD? Are there any tools I can use to properly test it?

Glanza · 6 Oct 2013 at 11:09

What board + chip have you got?

misterjingo · 6 Oct 2013 at 11:11

I've got a i7 2700K running on a Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68.

swiftmetal · 6 Oct 2013 at 11:17

Before you installed windows did you go into the bios and enable the sata type to ahci mode because if not your ssd will not be utilized properly.

misterjingo · 6 Oct 2013 at 11:24

swiftmetal said:
Before you installed windows did you go into the bios and enable the sata type to ahci mode because if not your ssd will not be utilized properly.

Hi, Yes I did.

swiftmetal · 6 Oct 2013 at 11:39

If you can get into windows can you try crystal disk mark and run the tests and post a screen shot please.

misterjingo · 6 Oct 2013 at 12:52

swiftmetal said:
If you can get into windows can you try crystal disk mark and run the tests and post a screen shot please.

Dervious · 6 Oct 2013 at 23:11

My initial thought is that your SSD is not faulty.

misterjingo · 7 Oct 2013 at 14:10

Well I've experienced no other issues since I last posted - so I'll see how it goes.

Hotshoteu · 7 Oct 2013 at 18:13

If you're getting this error in the windows event log then disable link state power management. "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period."

I installed 2 of these drives yesterday and had major issues copying large data to them, with hangs of 2 minutes or more. Once I disabled the option it was all good.