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.

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.

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.

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!