SSD Failure?

IanB001

IanB001

IanB001

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Hello

I'm after some advice regarding my Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1) which I purchased in August 2010.

Recently it has been taking 4 or 5 attempts to boot into Windows, other times my system fails to find the drive and asks me to insert a boot disc.

Is it safe to assume the the drive is on its way out, or could it be something else? For example, could a recent driver update for the Marvel 91xx SATA 6G Controller on my Asus Rampage III Extreme have caused the problem?

Luckily all my important data and games are stored on my 2 Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2001FASS) which I have setup in RAID 1 so I'm not too worried if my boot drive fails, but it's beginning to be a pain having to keep hitting the reset button on my system in hopes that it will eventually boot.

Thank you.
Ian.
 
Could you give us screenshot of your drives S.M.A.R.T. status
by using ether CrystalDiskInfo or HD Tune?

Have you tried a hard drive error scan with "check disk" etc to see
whether your drive is physically damaged, bad sectors etc?
 
Here is the screen shot from CrystalDiskInfo

Screen Shot

Here are the CHKDSK results:

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date: 21/05/2012 00:43:22
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:


Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
168192 file records processed. File verification completed.
595 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 92 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
234190 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
168192 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 2471 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2471 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2471 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
33000 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
35803976 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
168176 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
29816051 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

249954303 KB total disk space.
130322212 KB in 126250 files.
88440 KB in 33001 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
279443 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
119264208 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
62488575 total allocation units on disk.
29816052 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 91 02 00 1f 6e 02 00 60 7c 04 00 00 00 00 00 .....n..`|......
8f 83 00 00 5c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....\...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Of course I have no idea what any of this information is telling me.

Thank you.
Ian.
 
Just to be sure, check all the cables in side.

You also could try different sata ports, but I don't have any great answers for you.

Only that the SSD shouldn't be dieing, its nowhere never its end of life.

I'm not suggesting it is your ram, but once faulty ram caused the intel ssd toolbox to inform me to contact intel and request a replacement drive. It was only when testing the ssd in another computer I started looking at other problems.
 
I've checked and tried different cables, both power and SATA.

I tried connecting the drive to a different SATA port. Instead of connecting it to one of the 2 x 6.0 Gb/s ports the motherboard has, I connected it to one of the 6 x 3.0 Gb/s ports.

No matter what I do the BIOS doesn't always detect this drive and yet the BIOS detects and lists my RAID volume everytime.

Today it took 6 reboots before the BIOS would detect my Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive.

I'm not sure where to go from here. Should I buy some RAM to see if it's that, or just buy a new drive, either a new SSD or traditional mechanical drive? Any suggestions?

Thank you.
Ian.
 
Problem resolved!

I rolled back the Marvell 91xx SATA 6G Controller driver and all is working flawlessly once again.

Thank you.
Ian.
 
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