SSD issue.

Slade2 · 23 Jan 2012 at 23:53

Ok, I am unsure what to do with this issue.

I have a 60gig OCZ-Agility SSD and SSDLife is reporting the drive as having 8% health. I am really this is quite poor for a drive that is less than 8 months old?

http://online.hddlife.com/ssdlife/10f9538cba30728fe49b6ed4a4d91643

This is the report from the drive online.

This is my boot drive and was brand new when I installed it. It still has the 1.6 fireware on it since I have not looked into updating the fireware to 1.7 since I was assuming that would mean a reformat and reinstall of my PC?

Any one have any idea what to do? I am just wondering if its going to fail in the next month as it says on SSDlife then I really need to get it out and RMA it?

Slade2 · 24 Jan 2012 at 23:30

Ok, I contacted OCZ and they wanted me to run and post the results from there toolbox software so I downloaded the software and it wont pick up the drive. Anyone else had this issue?

Slade2 · 25 Jan 2012 at 00:31

Thanks Shadz,

Yeah It does say that on the web version of the output but on the screenshoot from SSDlife Pro its says

`Your drive health is in warning condiction - too many bad cells and projected lifetime are lower than one month! We suggest to replace`

So I was a little worried about the drive tbh since its my boot drive and I dont want to be without it is possible. I am just wondering if some Bios settings are wrong or something becuase the toolbox software from OCZ doesnt even detect the drive.

Slade2 · 26 Jan 2012 at 14:30

Currently in the process of getting some tech support from OCZ regarding this issue I dont just want the drive to fail on me if possible.

Slade2 · 27 Jan 2012 at 16:46

I have no clue dave its my boot drive and my pc is almost never turned off. Its been installed since I got it about 8 months ago. Is there anything you could recommend I can check to see if its setup correctly. I am RMAing it to OCZ since that was I was told to do but anything i can do over the weekend to try and avoid that would be good since its my boot drive I dont really want to be without it.

Slade2 · 28 Jan 2012 at 01:03

I am using windows 7 64bit, Intel rapid storage tech is installed and reports the drive as working ok. I am not sure what else I have set up or how it all works with regards to SSD`s but am keen for this problem not to happen again of course.

Slade2 · 28 Jan 2012 at 16:54

I have contacted overclockers were I brought it and was told to check it with HDDtune which does say thats its in a warning state. I have absolutely not clue why the drive is like it is after only 8 months of use becuase apparently they should last for 5 years of constant operating system use on average and I read that was at 100gig a day of wrights and i dont do anything near that.

Slade2 · 29 Jan 2012 at 14:30

Data Read, GB is 3.6 - 73.7 - and 129.1 for Today, Yesturday and Last 7 days. Data Written is 3.5 - 20.2 and 51.5. I dont think that looks anything like to high? although i am sure data read should be much higher than written over time i`m sure which isnt the case for this drive for some reason.

Slade2 · 30 Jan 2012 at 07:41

not the only drive in the system as I have an extra 1tb for storage. I have 4gig of ram in this pc. Even the page file/temp files trashing the drive souldnt really kill the drive after 8 months? I suppose when I get the new drive I can move the page file and turn off system restore and see if that has any effect.

Slade2 · 30 Jan 2012 at 12:58

I meant to ask while on the subject if/when I return my SSD to OCZ for them to look at is there anyway to set up a temporary partition on a drive that has allready been formated. I will need to get some way of working with what I have and atm i think the only solution is to partition my existing storage drive so I can install an OS on it for the time when my SSD is away. Is there any software out there that will let me do that?