Is my SSD dead?

John24

John24

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My Mtron MOBI 3000 is now 17 Months old and has developed bad clusters, chkdsk says there is "Insufficient disk space to fix the bad clusters file"

Code: 
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>chkdsk h: /f /r
The type of the file system is NTFS.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 2683
of name \DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\APPLIC~1\THUNDE~1\Profiles\NA2LWQ~1.DEF\Mail\LOCALF~1\Inbox.
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
Adding 2818378 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Insufficient disk space to fix the bad clusters file.
CHKDSK aborted.

RMA time isn't it?
 
a single bad sector?
That isn't too bad - the troublesome SSDs were generally Samsung 120GB drives which I have had the 'pleasure' of owning. The typical scans were 50+ bad sectors leading up to an inevitable MBR corruption.
 
Yes but it can't recover it, and what does this line mean?

"Adding 2818378 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File."

That would suggest more than one. In any case if it can't be recovered it's unusable because it won't come out of POI mode and chockes when the bad cluster is accessed.
 
OK so I used killdisk to write zeros to the whole drive in preperation to RMA it and guess what...

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No more bad clusters, ran chkdsk again and it didn't find any bad clusters but it did correct errors in the MFT mirror
Code: 
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>chkdsk h: /f /r
The type of the file system is NTFS.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
Correcting errors in the Master File Table (MFT mirror.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

  15623180 KB total disk space.
   3576248 KB in 23111 files.
      7916 KB in 3265 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
     93140 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  11945876 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
   3905795 total allocation units on disk.
   2986469 allocation units available on disk.

Time to cancel RMA I suppose.
 
Maybe but I don't think so in this case because I tried diff ports and cables, plus 3 of my cables are only a few weeks old.

I'm still using it now though and it's fine. My guess is for whatever reason the bad cluster wasn't able to take itself out of use but the proccess of formatting took the bad cluster out of use.

So if it happens again I just need to backup and re-image the OS back to it, but TBO if it does happen again I'll just RMA it while it's still in waranty.
 
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