SSD Failure

YoungBlood

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So my OCZ Vertex2E 60gb seems to have given up the ghost. PC hung and the drive was not detected on restart, tried it on a friends PC and no sign of life there either :(
BIOS just cant see it, nothing in Windows when hot swapped. RIP

About 2 months old and light use, its not on 24/7, quite dissapointed.

I do have a support ticket into OCZ but it's the weekend so no reply from them till Monday, fair enough.
Just thought I'd ask here if anyone else has had one fail, or if anyone knows something to try before RMA time.
 
I have an OCZ vertex 30gb. I had it on a striker extreme and it used to 'drop out' randomly and BSOD. I would then restart the sytem and get "no boot drive detected" (ie the SSD wasn't 'seen' by the bios).
I had to turn off the system discount the SSD from the power molex cable for 2 minutes, plug it back in and was on my way. I then updated firmware from 1.3 to 1.4 and had no problems since.

If you can see it in the bios try updating the firmware. May/may not work.
 
Hmm that's not cool... I have a vertex 2 100GB and now you've got me worried! Try as Reilly suggested and try get it booting to do firmware upgrades.
 
what motherboard are you using? (maybe a chipset problem)
Have you trying changing the sata port?
try sata mode = IDE?

If that fails OCZforums are good at helping people on SSD problems
 
reilly said:
what motherboard are you using? (maybe a chipset problem)
Have you trying changing the sata port?
try sata mode = IDE?

If that fails OCZforums are good at helping people on SSD problems
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Gigabyte P35C DS3R
Tried all ports and tried reverting back to IDE from ACHI, nothing

Tried in another PC so its 99% = Dead

Luckily my old raid array on the old mechanical drives fired up first time, so going by that I have lost 2 months, BUT do have a backup of the SSD, however this was backed up in ACHI, can that be restored to IDE/RAID setup without problems, or will it cause trouble?
 
YoungBlood said:
So my OCZ Vertex2E 60gb seems to have given up the ghost. PC hung and the drive was not detected on restart, tried it on a friends PC and no sign of life there either :(
BIOS just cant see it, nothing in Windows when hot swapped. RIP

About 2 months old and light use, its not on 24/7, quite dissapointed.

I do have a support ticket into OCZ but it's the weekend so no reply from them till Monday, fair enough.
Just thought I'd ask here if anyone else has had one fail, or if anyone knows something to try before RMA time.
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Having the same problem this is my second VERTEX in a year and a half, it started last night when the mouse + curser disappeared, when I rebooted the PC I got the CHKDSK, some missing and truncated flies.


I had to use the keyboard to get my files backed up, tried it in another two PC’s today and it totally dead, no life.

Not very happy about this, one, maybe but two HMMMMMM!:mad::mad::mad:
 
QlimaxUK said:
ah so these new SDD's arn't so data-secure afterall, ill stick with my good old 'unsafe' machanical drives then :p
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This is just one or two instances though isn't it, I don't think we can write them off just yet :p

Besides, everything should be backed up anyway, it's not as if data security is a new thing is it. :)
 
YoungBlood said:
Gigabyte P35C DS3R
Tried all ports and tried reverting back to IDE from ACHI, nothing

Tried in another PC so its 99% = Dead

Luckily my old raid array on the old mechanical drives fired up first time, so going by that I have lost 2 months, BUT do have a backup of the SSD, however this was backed up in ACHI, can that be restored to IDE/RAID setup without problems, or will it cause trouble?
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It aught to be plug and play, from what I recall. It's only going from IDE to AHCI that needs you to enable an extra service. If the controller is in RAID mode the drive will actually run in AHCI mode anyway.
 
I've had an X25-M 80GB for several months and a Vertex 2E 60GB for a few days. Haven't had any problems with either yet but I've heard a number of people complain about issues with OCZ drives. Mine has the latest firmware, but put it this way; I'm glad the Intel is my boot drive.
 
miniyazz said:
Either of you guys overclock? Adjusting PCI-e clock in particular?
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Don’t know about the PCI-e but the Intel Core i7 980X is overclocked @ 4173.4, but the first VERTEX that went dead the CPU wasn’t overclocked at all.
I have on order the new OCZ IBIS drive this is putting this in doubt and am thinking of cancelling my order , as the VERTEX is supposed to be 1.5 million hours MTBF the first one was just under a year the replace is just over six months, I am not happy :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
Mechanical HDs fail too ;)

Now if this thread turns into anything like the 'My Hiper PSU just exploded and took my street with it" thread then we definitely have a problem. :D
 
Gizmowithatt said:
Don’t know about the PCI-e but the Intel Core i7 980X is overclocked @ 4173.4, but the first VERTEX that went dead the CPU wasn’t overclocked at all.
I have on order the new OCZ IBIS drive this is putting this in doubt and am thinking of cancelling my order , as the VERTEX is supposed to be 1.5 million hours MTBF the first one was just under a year the replace is just over six months, I am not happy :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Just cancelled my order for the OCZ IBIS drive, not sure what now, maybe Intel is the way to go! :confused:
 
Is it just OCZ SSD's that fail? are they not that reliable at all? How much more reliable are the Corsair ones?
 
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