why is my computer killing my SSDs?

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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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
 
what ports are you using? intel sata2 or marvell sata3 if you have them? marvell ports will give you trouble,overclock has 0 effect on sata ports
ran memtest86 just to rule out any memory errors,could be writing corrupted data to the disks?
 
well if anything the intel are better than the marvell/jmicron ones,but its worth a try i guess,you could just be very unlucky also,is that all you have hooked up? one ssd? mechanical hdd's are fine? if it was a motherboard/port issue i would have thought it would kill the hdd's aswell
 
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...
 
im not saying its dead im just saying if it was playing up it would affect the hdd's aswell? its rather strange for you to have two ssd's die but i wouldnt rule out badluck either
 
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