I hate SSDs!!

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Gave SSDs a second try this week and after 10 days it has started to fail :(

My first SSD was in my Lenovo Thinkpad and died after 5 months, part of the disk became unusable but I was luckily able to retrieve my files before swapping it out for a physical hard disk.

This week I put a Sandisk 256Gb in my desktop. I cloned my system drive to the SSD and swapped them over. It started playing up within 5 days, but I changed a few things over so I have been testing those out, but it is the SSD. The SSD will only be detected when switched on from cold, not when you reset and the computer will just freeze after about 5 minutes of use. i luckily imaged the HDD before the trouble started so today swapped the SSD for a physical HDD and copied the image over and I am back to a perfectly running PC.

Either I am very unlucky with SSDs or there is some setting on my PC that is mysteriously turned on called kill SSD. Lol

There is nothing common between the 2 installs so it is either bad luck or SSDs still have a long way to go in terms of reliability.
 
I love mine, bought a refurb from crucial ages ago with only 1 months warranty, been fine ever since and makes an average PC so responsive. Sounds like you know your stuff so assume you're following the online guides WRT what to turn off to make them last, either way 5 days is no good.

Third time lucky?
 
I've had 2 Samsungs in the last year (an 830 and an 840) and had no problems at all.

Even if using them in IDE mode and on Sata 2 they are still much faster than a HDD.

Perhaps you were just unlucky - after all HDDs can also fail fairly quickly.

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If the pc is short of memory and using loads of swap and it's constantly re-writing over swap space that could explain premature failure I suppose. HDDs aren't so bothered about re-writing in the same place.

Or the disk controller in the pc is a poor quality one and its failings upset an SSD somehow.
 
Yup. Unlucky IMHO. I have SSDs in 9 machines here, some have been going strong for 3+ years...
 
You're not defragging the drive by any chance?
 
So are you sure it's dead ?

All I have read suggests new clean install then mod windows I loath putting one in but once installed they worked well update on firmware was a joke you need a doctorate lol
 
The problem is not at the OS level as the BIOS has issues detecting the drive.

The only thing I didn't do was use AHCI as it wouldn't boot, didn't research it further.

Defrag was off. Machine has 12Gb of RAM and it had only been used for World of Tanks and a few emails.
 
Dale_tem said:
The problem is not at the OS level as the BIOS has issues detecting the drive. The only thing I didn't do was use AHCI as it wouldn't boot, didn't research it further. Defrag was off. Machine has 12Gb of RAM and it had only been used for World of Tanks and a few emails.
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Are there any issues reported on the mobo manufacturer's site or in tech forums? Have you tried a different cable to the drive in case it is something daft like that?

I'd try changing the bios version too.
 
border_all said:
You may know already if the os is on a drive it often should go to a specific sata terminal for drive to see and boot. Correctly
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Yep SATA1.

Not checked BIOS updated or forums yet. Will do that over the next few days when I have a bit of time.
 
These days it shouldn't matter too much, you can pop my os ssd in any my asus 6 Sata ports and it'll boot fine for example.

So there is definitely no same hardware between builds, you're following the ssd manufacturers setup guidelines to the letter etc?
 
Also try checking for firmware updates for the SATA drives via the manufacturers website.
 
Buy a Samsung and you will be very happy. Very well thought of SSD brand. I have one in my laptop and it is ace.
 
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