OCZ Vertex 4 dead

Vertigo · 5 Mar 2013 at 23:40

Well it seems my Vertex 4 is dead. Booted up my machine this evening to be confronted with a borked copy of Windows. Did a disk check and there were a raft of corrupted files. Decomissioned it for now and co-opted my 840Pro into service as a replacement OS drive. Will investigate the Vertex in more detail at the weekend.

Anyone got any ideas how to do a full scan/health-check on an SSD? I'm concerned that, following a full format, it'll show up as fine again but I obviously won't be able to trust it. Need some software which will thoroughly test every bit of storage in it and which I can leave running for a while, kind of like memtest does for memory.

V F · 6 Mar 2013 at 02:02

Curious, did you ever take a glance in the event log viewer to see if there was a lot of disk error reports?

Vertigo · 6 Mar 2013 at 08:39

No, didn't think to do that to be honest. My 840Pro was being used as a games drive so I just moved everything off of that onto another drive then restored the previous night's backup of the OCZ drive to the 840Pro and all is now well again.

I've not actually done anything with the OCZ so, come the weekend, I'll reconnect it up again and investigate further, including checking the event log.

Devrij · 6 Mar 2013 at 09:31

Typically when OCZ drives fail it's in the form of just disappearing from the BIOS, but I'd keep an eye on that drive. The 840 pro is a better drive anyway so just use the OCZ as your games drive and if it starts throwing up errors again then it's safe to say it's RMA time.

Vertigo · 6 Mar 2013 at 09:54

Yeah I'll give the OCZ a good check at the weekend. If it seems ok then I'll use it as the games drive and see how it goes for a while. I backup the whole machine every night anyway so no great problems if it dies.