OCZ Vertex 2 Dead?

ZeroG

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I have an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD in my system I use for a few games which I've had for a while now. However yesterday games on it stopped working, i tried to delete one of the games off the drive but got an error. I then tried formatting the drive but just get an error saying Windows was unable to format the drive.

The drive is seen in the bios and in Windows. In disk management the drive shows as healthy and active but in the format RAW.

Is there anything else I can try to get the disk working or do I finally accept the OCZ drive has finally died.
 
Try removing both power and SATA cables and leave over night. Then re-connect and try again.

Question... if you peer at the front of the drive, can you still see the green LED? or is it now red? or off totally?

Also worth downloading the latest OCZ toolbox for the drive and trying a Secure Erase.
 
The green light on the drive still comes on. Weirdly turning on my pc after work tonight the drive is showing as normal but I still can't use it. it is showing as NTFS now as well.

https://i.imgur.com/qr1bJbY.png
https://i.imgur.com/YHUJDic.png

Update:
There was a firmware update so I thought I might as well try that but it said the drive rejected the command. I had to do a reboot and now for some reason the drive shows as the firmware has been updated and it now seems to work. I was able to format the drive.
 
ZeroG said:
The green light on the drive still comes on. Weirdly turning on my pc after work tonight the drive is showing as normal but I still can't use it. it is showing as NTFS now as well.

https://i.imgur.com/qr1bJbY.png
https://i.imgur.com/YHUJDic.png

Update:
There was a firmware update so I thought I might as well try that but it said the drive rejected the command. I had to do a reboot and now for some reason the drive shows as the firmware has been updated and it now seems to work. I was able to format the drive.
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Did you do the firmware update via the OCZ toolbox?
Quite often it needs a re-boot to finish the process.

When you say "format the drive". I'm assuming as it's an SSD, that you just did a quick format? Prior to this, I would personally have done a Secure Erase to return the performance back to out of the box factory fresh.

Lets hope your problems are over.

I'm still running a Vertex 2 as a data drive and it's still running just fine. Luck of the draw though I suppose.
 
mikeo said:
Did you do the firmware update via the OCZ toolbox?
Quite often it needs a re-boot to finish the process.

When you say "format the drive". I'm assuming as it's an SSD, that you just did a quick format? Prior to this, I would personally have done a Secure Erase to return the performance back to out of the box factory fresh.

Lets hope your problems are over.

I'm still running a Vertex 2 as a data drive and it's still running just fine. Luck of the draw though I suppose.
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Yes I used the OCZ SSD utility as I couldn't find a version of the toolbox. I did just do a quick format. Should I do a secure erase anyway?
 
ZeroG said:
Yes I used the OCZ SSD utility as I couldn't find a version of the toolbox. I did just do a quick format. Should I do a secure erase anyway?
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I'd personally do a Secure Erase, followed by a quick format. Especially if the drive has been in use for a while, which I suspect it will have been.

Should be good to go then (hopefully) :)
 
The OCZ software said it had been powered on for 18822 hours.

Had to delete the partition before it would let me secure erase the disk. All done now, lets see how much longer the drive lasts.
 
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When my Vertex 2E era drives would fail it would be a sudden death situation with both the red and greed diode lit all the time, at the rear of the drive. This was termed as being in "panic mode" - tech speak for borked.
 
linktoinsanity said:
My old one was a dodgy little bugger. I sent it back to OcUK and got an Intel 510 back, which is still going strong in my little Microserver.
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Yeah damn good choice! When I brought my little Evo back on release I was thinking about going with Intel, wish I had considering all the "slowdown" issues I had and decent Intel' were worth the same as I'd paid :rolleyes: The Evo now isn't a bad drive at all though in all fairness.
 
My main OS drive is a 500GB Samsung 850 Evo and it's working great since I got it, never had any problems with it.
 
Just retired a Ocz vortex 2 sata2 drive today....must have been 7-8 years old and used on a 24/7 computer.
It always worked great, never a problem with it. :)
 
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