Think I've bricked an SSD

Murfi

Murfi

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I had 2 64gb crucial m225s running in RAID0 and whilst installing black-ops yesterday my pc blue screened and then in startup it said there was an error on 1 of the RAID drives.

I managed to boot up although it seemed to take forever. I checked my ssd setup in windows and the drives were like 95% full which is strange! so i checked to see what was taking up the space. WOOPS :rolleyes: I'd recently installed FRAPS to check on my frames in fallout new vegas and it seemed i'd recorded 50gig of video unknowingly whilst playing fallout my quickload key F9 in fallout was telling fraps to record!!! big noob mistake. :eek:

backed up what i needed to, restarted and went back into raid config. Pulled the SSDs out of raid and formatted them and put them back in same RAID0 config. Booted up fine without any errors!

So I reinstalled windows which took forever! I went out and came back like 3-4 housr later and still wasn't finished :mad:

finally got it up and running, windows is slow as hell! installing simple driver files and software was taking forever and windows was sluggish and somthing definately wrong.

So I installed windows onto my DATA harddrive to get things running smoothly, benchmarked both SSDs individualy 1 is fine (198mb/sec read and 100mb/sec writes)and the other is reporting back 75mb/sec read speeds and a pityful 1mb/sec writes

I'm no expert but im guessing my noob use of fraps has worn out the SSD's as they have limited writes? and i was tearing the ass out of it over like 40 hours of new vegas?

Is there anything I can do? I mean i'm running windows off the good SSD now temporarily so i can try black-ops today. But surely if 1 failed this 1 must be on it's last legs aswell??

Do I buy new SSD setup? or do i have any rights to get refund or exchange?
(SSDs bought from competitor)
 
an MLC SSD shouldn't have worn out already... Must be something else, im no expert on them but if they are full don't they lose speed as they cannot move stuff around? you would think a format would solve that issue but it obviously hasn't, meh /shrug ll wait for the experts.

As for your rights if it is a total loss I don't think your covered for damage arising to own negligence (no offence meant)
 
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Hmmm yeah It was careless but roughly 25gb of writes to each drive (50gb in total)doesn't sound as extreme as I thought. Besides the drives clean now should i send back as a failed drive they would have no proof of my fraps cockup.....
 
ubersonic said:
If they were in raid would that have stopped their trim function working?
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the firmware was fixed a while back for these drives, trim didn't work in raid but once firmware was fixed the crucials had their own cleanup going on there. It must've worked because before failure the speed was always on top form.
As I say i'm no expert but i think trim is totally irrelevant here.

TRIM or no TRIM 1mb/sec writes is totally wrong.

I'm going to try putting the drive into my brother's computer and benchmarking it there.

Just so i can be 100% sure the drive is banjaxxed
 
Using it in the way it is intended, to store data, is not negligence. There is nothing there that tells me you did anything wrong.

If its faulty return it under the warranty or to the seller if its earlier(30 days or something).
 
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