Possibly worthless SSD

Hotwired · 18 Aug 2017 at 01:20

Looking at a SSD from someones laptop

Casual health check says its fine and in fact has vastly less use than my own drives but in error checking its disgustingly full of bad sectors which are causing data copying, cloning and booting from the OS on it to fail.

I've saved the data I can get (ignore all on errors while doing so) but it's looking like I can't even wipe the drive.

Any second opinions before I smash it up and bin it?

Hotwired · 18 Aug 2017 at 02:32

Nevermind, it's decided to neck itself. Hammer and bin time it is.

megatron · 23 Aug 2017 at 14:23

Pics or it didn't happen!

Hotwired · 23 Aug 2017 at 14:25

I'm not digging it out now, it's halfway down a black rubbish sack.

The chips pop off surprisingly easily.

Mooching about looking for something in the 128gb range to stuff back in the laptop for a fresh install.

lude1962 · 23 Aug 2017 at 15:07

what make etc was it?

Hotwired · 23 Aug 2017 at 15:54

Crucial M4

http://www.legitreviews.com/crucial-m4-micron-c400-256gb-ssd-review_1583/2

Basically last I saw of it was error checking on HD Tune and the block diagram was more red blocks than green plus it was freezing up my main computer trying to read the drive.

I dunno what it was, maybe the heat got to it.

GWANGY · 26 Aug 2017 at 10:47

yup always name names, m4 is quite old now ...send it back for a refund ..

hornetstinger · 26 Aug 2017 at 10:49

Still using a couple of 64GB Crucial M4. Works fine

ED209 · 27 Aug 2017 at 08:36

~~Did you check to make sure the SSD was on the latest firmware? these drives had issues when they hit the 5200 hour bug, link below~~

~~http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Crucial-M4-5200-hours-bug-still-occurring-after-firmware-upgrade/td-p/129502~~

edit..........just noticed you chucked it away so the above is pointless