Anyones Intel SSD gone kaput?

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My friends Intel X25-V died today. It happened after the first phase of windows 7 finished installing (where it does first reboot). After the restart it would freeze the computer on post and you could not do anything but restart, could not even go into bios.

It was definitely the ssd as he tried it in another computer which caused the same problem. He is getting it rma'd now.

My question is, has anyone here had any problem with there ssd's or intel ssd's more specifically? I was thinking of going for one, or maybe I will wait till their 3rd gen ones.
 
Intel's are at the more reliable end of the spectrum so far as I can tell. All computer bits have a chance of failure, I know that I've certainly had Motherboards, CPU's, RAM and Graphics cards that have been DOA or failed within a month. It's just not economical for manufacturers to fully stress test every component.

SSD's are definitely more reliable than mechanical drives though.
 
Forgot to mention, this was after he had it working for a few months. Everything was all good till he went to format.

By the way, what are all you guys using, AHCI or IDE? benchies show AHCI to be faster, some say IDE feels faster and boots windows faster.
 
I'm using AHCI. The benchmarks show this to be the best to use. I never tried IDE on my SSD so I couldn't say if it feels faster. I doubt it though.
 
TNA said:
My friends Intel X25-V died today...
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Was he running it in IDE or AHCI mode?

Just asking, because I had a problem were after doing a Win 7 restore (using the Win 7 backup and restore utility), the SSD was not recognised after it had completed and was booting, it just stopped on the AHCI screen...it was not an SSD problem, but something to do with the file system on the SSD, I was able to remedy it by removing SATA cable from SSD, go into BIOS and set Intel cont from AHCI to IDE (and disable "Native Mode"), then reboot, reconnect the SATA cable and run HDDerase v4, I then ran the Win 7 restore facility which completed etc...

This is reported in the forum...

I've had 2 Intel 80GB X25-M G2's since Oct 2009 and they are still running fine in AHCI mode...
 
Run my X25-M 160GB in AHCI mode with the Intel iaStor.inf driver (ver 9.6.0.1014).

Loaded the driver with a USB pen drive at the start of the Windows 7 install procedure.
Works a treat with no problems yet, had it for 4 months now.
 
Had my Intel X25-M 160GB for a while now, still going strong, still at roughly the same retail price I paid back in the day. Same thing for my i7 920 (which I got about 2 years ago) not really come down in price the i7's. Odd to have computer parts that aren't half the price 6 months later.
 
Doesn't TRIM only work in AHCI mode?

Also AHCI uses all the new SATA commands. I don't see any point in using legacy IDE emulation over SATA.
 
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