- Nov 6, 2011
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My original 256GB Samsung 840Pro died on me in less than a year (no warning... just BAM and that was it.) Got the de rigueur refurb 840Pro in return; not really trusting it, I ran it in a non-critical laptop for a while, and then finally moved it to my main PC when it didn't show any problems. About 2-3 months ago I started having some crashing issues, I immediately cloned it to another SSD and relegated it to backup duties... and the crashing problems stopped.
One of the things I do to check the drive is occasionally run a benchmark on the drive using Magician software... what I'm seeing now is that it will lock up on the Sequential Write portion of the benchmark, not always but probably 50% of the time. I uninstalled Magician and reinstalled the latest version, to eliminate that, but it's still doing it.
This is from this AM... I wiped the drive with Acronis, reformatted it, and it's completely empty... and with nothing else running on the PC...
...is it RMA goat screw time again?
One of the things I do to check the drive is occasionally run a benchmark on the drive using Magician software... what I'm seeing now is that it will lock up on the Sequential Write portion of the benchmark, not always but probably 50% of the time. I uninstalled Magician and reinstalled the latest version, to eliminate that, but it's still doing it.
This is from this AM... I wiped the drive with Acronis, reformatted it, and it's completely empty... and with nothing else running on the PC...
...is it RMA goat screw time again?