Dead SSD, and Mysery switch

[veri745]

I took the plunge on a SSD (Super Talent 128GB UltraDrive) last month via this deal. After ~30 days, I received a message from AMD RAIDXpert that the drive had been dropped, and Windows crashed shortly thereafter. After that, the BIOS wouldn't recognize the drive.

I contacted SuperTalent support for an RMA number already, but while I'm waiting, have there been any other reports of reliability issues with these drives that anyone has heard of?

Also, there's hardware switch on the drive that, as far as I know, is completely undocumented. Anyone know what it does?

 

[Engineer]

The switch basically turns the drive from an SSD to a firmware flashing engineering mode. There are special "full" destructive firmwares that will flash the drive when you turn this switch on (engineering mode it's called). This is exactly the same function as the OCZ jumper on the back of their drives. If you turn the switch on, you might see some strange Ytapadong drive detected in your BIOS.

 

[Rakewell]

I bought a drive from this sale the same day you did; I haven't had any issues yet....

 

[YBS1]

I have two of them in RAID 0 and haven't ran into any problems yet either. As with about anything, luck of the draw.