Hi,
Long post, sorry. Would appreciate any help.
I've got two machines; an setup that I built from OCUK parts about 8 years ago, and an HP Proliant microserver.
For the last 5 years, the Proliant had a 40 GB SSD in it (Corsair F40), and it's been great.
A few months ago, the machine crashed (which it never does) and after that it failed to boot. At first the BIOS wouldn't recognise the SSD at all, but after a bit of fiddling around, power cycling, removing the other drives, the BIOS would recognise it, but the OS wouldn't boot (just sits at a cursor, which seems to be common for that server with a broken bootable disk).
So I figured the disk had served me well, given the near 100% uptime, and I swapped it out for an Crucial C300 64GB that I'd used in my second machine for a bit until I'd replaced it. Everything seemed ok for a while, but on Wednesday the same thing happened. Machine had crashed, no disk found in BIOS.
My main computer has a Crucial M4 512 GB in it. Again, probably had it for about 3 years, no issued at all. When I left for work on Wednesday, the machine was working. When I get back this morning, machine won't boot. Disk not found in BIOS. No amount of power cycling or SATA cable/port changes will make it discoverable. It seems to be dead.
I find it hard to believe that this is a coincidence.
Both machines have 4x spinning disks, and they all appear to be fine. It's just the SSDs in two separate machines that have stopped working around the same time.
The only thing I can think of is something power related (either through the mains, or through the Ethernet-over-power that I'm using), but this seems unlikely to me.
I want to do something (I don't have a computer or a server working!) but I don't want to just replace the SSDs if there is something fundamentally wrong that will just break new ones...
Long post, sorry. Would appreciate any help.
I've got two machines; an setup that I built from OCUK parts about 8 years ago, and an HP Proliant microserver.
For the last 5 years, the Proliant had a 40 GB SSD in it (Corsair F40), and it's been great.
A few months ago, the machine crashed (which it never does) and after that it failed to boot. At first the BIOS wouldn't recognise the SSD at all, but after a bit of fiddling around, power cycling, removing the other drives, the BIOS would recognise it, but the OS wouldn't boot (just sits at a cursor, which seems to be common for that server with a broken bootable disk).
So I figured the disk had served me well, given the near 100% uptime, and I swapped it out for an Crucial C300 64GB that I'd used in my second machine for a bit until I'd replaced it. Everything seemed ok for a while, but on Wednesday the same thing happened. Machine had crashed, no disk found in BIOS.
My main computer has a Crucial M4 512 GB in it. Again, probably had it for about 3 years, no issued at all. When I left for work on Wednesday, the machine was working. When I get back this morning, machine won't boot. Disk not found in BIOS. No amount of power cycling or SATA cable/port changes will make it discoverable. It seems to be dead.
I find it hard to believe that this is a coincidence.
Both machines have 4x spinning disks, and they all appear to be fine. It's just the SSDs in two separate machines that have stopped working around the same time.
The only thing I can think of is something power related (either through the mains, or through the Ethernet-over-power that I'm using), but this seems unlikely to me.
I want to do something (I don't have a computer or a server working!) but I don't want to just replace the SSDs if there is something fundamentally wrong that will just break new ones...
