Any way to recover a blown SSD?

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I don't really care about any data on the drive, there's nothing of value on it but whilst writing something in Visual studio everything just locked up and upon rebooting the disk is missing, so I'm guessing its popped. I'd prefer to recover it if possible because of the expense/embuggerance of buying a new drive.

I've tried different sata ports and different cables so I'm fairly sure its the disk.

Do I just bin it?
 
Depending on the drive, there may be console port pin outs on the PCB (OCZ used to) which may shed a little more light but I'd say it's mort.
 
Aye its missing in the BIOS.

I tried changing from AHCI to IDE, new cables etc. Think its a gonner :(. It's a Samsung Evo 840, under warranty so I'm going to hopefully have it replaced.
 
My 850 EVO died in a similar fashion. Recognised in the bios but nowhere else.
15 months old so RMA'd under warranty and got the same drive back in full working order (lost all the data).
I'd love to know how they got it working again.
 
Mine looks like it's about to fail anytime soon (Samsung 840 Evo 256Gb), last few days Windows would just lock up and after a restart Chkdsk automatically kicks in and attempts to repair the drive.

Sometimes it is fine and then out of nowhere locks up. Seems to be a few people having issues with the 840, I still have an old 830 and its working great still. Time to source a new replacement me thinks, just wondering if the M.2 is worth the extra or not.
 
toon_mad said:
Mine looks like it's about to fail anytime soon (Samsung 840 Evo 256Gb), last few days Windows would just lock up and after a restart Chkdsk automatically kicks in and attempts to repair the drive.

Sometimes it is fine and then out of nowhere locks up. Seems to be a few people having issues with the 840, I still have an old 830 and its working great still. Time to source a new replacement me thinks, just wondering if the M.2 is worth the extra or not.
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My 512GB 840 Pro is working fine, i heard some people were having issues with the TLC nand on the 840 Evo so i guess that could be part of the problem since it would wear out quicker, especially if being fairly heavily used.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
My 512GB 840 Pro is working fine, i heard some people were having issues with the TLC nand on the 840 Evo so i guess that could be part of the problem since it would wear out quicker, especially if being fairly heavily used.
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Yeah it does get used quite a bit with steam and gog games etc but nothing I would consider too excessive use. Windows keeps locking up every now and then so I am definitely going to replace it. Each crash restart Windows keeps running a scan repair on the drive. Funny though Samsung Magician reports the drive in good health, however I tried running a performance test and it would not even complete it so looks almost dead.

Oh well it's an excuse to buy myself a shiny new M.2 :D
 
Toon, I had a similar issue with my 840.

would be fine then all of a sudden windows would lock up and I would need to hard reset. on reboot the 840 (storage drive) would not be detected in the bios or windows till I re seated the sata cable. in the end it was a RMA and replaced by the suppliers with a 850 evo as the 840 is EOL.

I tried a secure erase on it, latest firmware, change of sata cable and port but nothing stopped the issue.

is yours on the latest firmware? as there was a number of issues with accessing data on them drives which would only be fixed by a secure erase but then would slow down again till a firmware was released by Samsung

If you want to keep the drive then I would make sure the firmware is up to date and then give it a secure erase and see if that sorts the issues
 
ED209 said:
Toon, I had a similar issue with my 840.

would be fine then all of a sudden windows would lock up and I would need to hard reset. on reboot the 840 (storage drive) would not be detected in the bios or windows till I re seated the sata cable. in the end it was a RMA and replaced by the suppliers with a 850 evo as the 840 is EOL.

I tried a secure erase on it, latest firmware, change of sata cable and port but nothing stopped the issue.

is yours on the latest firmware? as there was a number of issues with accessing data on them drives which would only be fixed by a secure erase but then would slow down again till a firmware was released by Samsung

If you want to keep the drive then I would make sure the firmware is up to date and then give it a secure erase and see if that sorts the issues
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Hmm that is interesting.

When I got the drive I never updated the firmware but checking Samsung magician it reports my firmware version as EXT0BB6Q, the Samsung website shows what I assume it the latest firmware version as EXT0DB6Q.

It wont harm trying to update the firmware and then do a secure erase as you say first and see if that helps resolve the problem, the M.2 I was looking at was the Samsung 950 Pro 512Gb NVME which is not exactly cheap so if this works I can at least put that on hold for a while until some better offers hopefully come along.

Will update if and when I bring myself round to doing it (don't you just love reinstalling windows and everything else :o)

Cheers ;)
 
Ok so I updated the firmware from the magician software and tried the performance test again and just fails:

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Might try the secure erase tonight but its looking pretty much dead.

PS, sorry for hijacking your thread platypus :p
 
Pooh said:
Doesn't really make any odds performance wise. I've tried both. the slot on the mobo is a neater solution
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Yeah I thought as much, got it put in yesterday through the M.2 slot all running nicely now and its even hidden under the Rog armor :)
 
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