why is my computer killing my SSDs?

almoststew1990 · 29 Nov 2012 at 20:00

I have had a Samsung 830 and it died within a month- it locked up in windows and then failed to boot, saying a read error occured CAD to restart.The Shop I got it from took it and deemed it faulty, sent out a replacement which I got on Monday. Now it has happened again, windows locked up gradually and nothing from C: would launch, so I restart and it won't load up the SSD (even if I try to boot from tor windows DVD).

What on earth in my computer could be killing my SSDs?

Bios is set to AHCI. I installed Samsung magician software. Thats all I can think of. Would my overclock be anything to do with it?

The thread from the original dead SSD is: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18460151

almoststew1990 · 29 Nov 2012 at 20:04

My motherboard is Sata II. I am using the intel ones, but I have Jmicron ones I haven't tried...

almoststew1990 · 29 Nov 2012 at 20:15

My mechanical ones are fine, I have just installed 7 on one and the other is films music etc and is working fine. 500GB WD and 250GB Maxtor respectively. I don't think I changed ports when I put the new SSD in. But surely the new one wouldn't have worked at all if the port was dead? The bios sees it anyway...

almoststew1990 · 29 Nov 2012 at 20:24

Very odd indeed, I put it in my Jmicron and it boots up into windows! Any idea why it would work in jmicron but not intel?