SSD Failure

[Robert]

Absolutely gutted...

History -

Had a Gigabyte UD5/Enermax Galaxy (had it for around 4-5 years). A couple of months ago three hard drives went south...they all ran from the same controller. I just presumed that the board was faulty...sent it back and it was found faulty.

I replaced it with an Asus P6X58D and it's awesome...however recently I've been experiencing long load times in WoW which I attributed to a possible fault with my RAID array. Anyway flash forward to 10 minutes ago...I get a warning informing me that my C: will fail imminently and that I should back up. Now it will not boot with my SSD plugged in and I've tried changing SATA ports.

Now when I originally bought my Galaxy 850 years ago I read quite a bit about voltage ripple which could possibly kill hard drives over time and thus I'm now left wondering if this is what's happening!

 

[lukext]

Well, its not the controller/mobo and the only other thing plugged into the HDD/SDD is the PSU...

Unlucky, learn and move on! Corsair HX series are pretty damn good.

 

[lotus7]

I had a crucial 128 GB ssd in my system for a few months. Every couple of weeks when booting, win 7 would run a disk check/file system check on it, something that never happened with my mechanical drives.

I also noticed that photographs, I had over 7,000 on the disk, were gradually becoming corrupted. I was sure that the drive was randomly losing bits.

Sure enough, three weeks ago win 7 failed to boot, I guess a system file had become corrupted.

My system is now running well with a mechanical drive, fortunatley everything was backed up and I lost nothing.

Can anyone suggest diagnostic software to test out the drive ? It's probably still under warrenty and I would like to prove that it is faulty.

thanks

Martin

 

[Philtor]

I had a crucial 128 GB ssd in my system for a few months. Every couple of weeks when booting, win 7 would run a disk check/file system check on it, something that never happened with my mechanical drives.

I also noticed that photographs, I had over 7,000 on the disk, were gradually becoming corrupted. I was sure that the drive was randomly losing bits.

Sure enough, three weeks ago win 7 failed to boot, I guess a system file had become corrupted.

My system is now running well with a mechanical drive, fortunatley everything was backed up and I lost nothing.

Can anyone suggest diagnostic software to test out the drive ? It's probably still under warrenty and I would like to prove that it is faulty.

I would RMA it with Crucial as it's up to them to tell you how to test it so they can make sure it's faulty. Im not aware of any SSD diagnostic programs to be honest. There's Crystal Disk Info but that's more for benchmarking than determining if the drive is faulty tbh.