Sandisk 1Tb drive dissapeared from system

[Panos]

Good morning,

I have the Sandisk 960GB (not 1Tb was typing fast) drive for almost a year now. Up to yesteday no issue what so ever.

This morning the BIOS cannot find it at all. Reset the cmos, changed cables, SATA 3 sockets. Nothing.

I cannot test it to another system until monday, however I bet is a gonner?
Is there any way to whipe out the drive before I send it back for RMA since is still in warranty?

 

[chongker]

That's unfortunate! Which Sandisk SSD was it just out of curiosity?

Have you tried different power cables as well? Plugged into a different port on the PSU? (i'm assuming this is in a desktop system with a modular power supply).

Checking with another system is probably the best way to confirm if it's dead. Hope you had a backup!

 

[CapitalOne]

Is there a sandisk ssd utility you can download to check? Have you updated mobo bios etc to latest version?

Had this too in the past, have a look in the system event log for errors that might show failure.

Good Luck

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Had the same with my 480GB model and my mate had the same happen to their one too. Have you got a replacement back yet??

 

[liveid]

have had 2 ssd's fail similarly, never got either working again!