Anyone had an SSD die?

Telecaster · 28 Jul 2018 at 16:36

I have a 512gb sandisk that has my Steam library on it, I don't game any more so I hadn't noticed that it had stopped showing up in the explorer window, I was going to repurpose it for the main drive in a NUC I've acquired so was about to clone my C drive to it and noticed it wasn't showing.

Changed a few cables to rule them out and it just isn't recognised, same in the bios. it's a bit odd really as it's had virtually no use at all.

edscdk · 28 Jul 2018 at 16:40

Seen 3 die out of about 500, mostly cheap crappy brands and a lot of second hand ones as well (over about 4 or 5 years

bledd · 28 Jul 2018 at 18:07

So far, not seen one die. I've had a cheap Ocz old drive cause boot issues, it's been demoted to an external usb ''temp file mover'

HoneyBadger · 28 Jul 2018 at 18:30

Had a few die. They just give up and exhibit what you describe.

Just check disk manager in windows and the BIOS to confirm.

Telecaster · 28 Jul 2018 at 20:21

HoneyBadger said:
Had a few die. They just give up and exhibit what you describe.

Just check disk manager in windows and the BIOS to confirm.

Yeah that's first things I checked, I also have an external USB to SATA adapter and have taken the drive out and tried connecting it as an external drive and it's still not showing up.

tamzzy · 28 Jul 2018 at 20:23

yea, had a sandisk extreme pro die on me.
fwiw sandisk RMA was painless and took 14 days from starting the RMA to getting the new ssd back.

Rroff · 28 Jul 2018 at 20:35

I've had some cheapy ones die - but they were used for silly projects so not sure if that was the SSD or the abuse they took.

Telecaster · 28 Jul 2018 at 22:09

tamzzy said:
yea, had a sandisk extreme pro die on me.
fwiw sandisk RMA was painless and took 14 days from starting the RMA to getting the new ssd back.

Probably out of warranty, I can't remember when I bought it or where from TBH. One for the bin I think.

Raggs · 29 Jul 2018 at 00:57

had one pack up corsair drive tried everything to get it working stripped everything out of the pc so just that attached and gpu, still no joy so bought a Samsung evo as a replacement one last thing before the corsair went in the bin bought a 2.5 enclosure for it and it worked with that re formatted and now it's back in the pc i don't trust it as a boot drive though

ED209 · 29 Jul 2018 at 06:09

I have had a Samsung 840 Evo die on me and then had the reseller replace it with a 850 Evo.

The ssd would be fine then all of a sudden the drive would disappear and windows would crash. This was jus a storage drive as well, I could reboot the pc and would be ok till it happened again. I had to disconnect or form the pc for about ten mins before it would re appear

Telecaster · 29 Jul 2018 at 09:59

Interesting. I'm just relieved this was a steam drive and not C drive. Still not good though as I'd relied on having it for the NUC which meant not having to buy a drive for it which obviously keeps the cost down, and now I've ended up buying one for it anyway!

FlyingScotsman · 29 Jul 2018 at 10:14

Not had any die, and have had a few through the years, my boy has an old ocz vertex 2 which is years old and still running strong in his pc.

Vince · 29 Jul 2018 at 10:18

Interesting topic as I was talking to hypertec about this very thing at work a few weeks back after a powercut took out 6 SSD's. Turns out there is a batch of controllers (sandisk) that many manufacturers use that can simply just die.

I probably still have an email explaining the issue if anyone is interested?

tamzzy · 29 Jul 2018 at 10:23

Vince said:
probably still have an email explaining the issue if anyone is interested?

Yes please

Vince · 29 Jul 2018 at 10:33

Right, turns out it wasn't a few weeks ago but was Feb, I also can't seem to find the techie bits but I think that might be because I rang the guy after this email:

Iv'e removed some bits and bobs from the image such as subject, email addresses etc.

APM · 29 Jul 2018 at 12:38

I've lost a Sandisk but the rma process was very quick and easy so...

Disco_P · 29 Jul 2018 at 20:20

I've only had a Samsung NVME drive die on me. Kicked the bucket after about a year whereas I have 2 Samsung 830 drives going strong from 2011.

tamzzy · 29 Jul 2018 at 21:57

Vince said:
Right, turns out it wasn't a few weeks ago but was Feb, I also can't seem to find the techie bits but I think that might be because I rang the guy after this email:

which sandisk model is this?

Glanza · 30 Jul 2018 at 12:36

Only had a m.2 drive fail so far, not a 'proper' SSD.

Only had 1 Kingston SSD fail at work was getting on for 4 years old at the time.

Hades · 1 Aug 2018 at 17:29

I had a Corsair die on me last week.