Death of 64gb sf

[john3850]

My first cheap ssd died while opening crystal disk info and crashed my i7-930.
That ADATA S599 55gb sf drive spent a year + as a boot drive.
It was replaced with a m4 and then used it with a few games non stop for another year without ever having a problem I believe it had over 12000 hrs on it not bad.

 

[BrightCandle]

Still well below the expectations we should have of solid state storage however. It should have survived 20 years unless you wrote to the flash enough to actually degrade the cells in which case we should expect it to be read only.

The young deaths of SSDs is due to some really poor quality control, they shouldn't be failing so quickly.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Still well below the expectations we should have of solid state storage however. It should have survived 20 years unless you wrote to the flash enough to actually degrade the cells in which case we should expect it to be read only.

The young deaths of SSDs is due to some really poor quality control, they shouldn't be failing so quickly.

Blame the commie libs and their fear of good old fashioned lead based solder.

http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/index.htm

 

[john3850]

Still well below the expectations we should have of solid state storage however. It should have survived 20 years unless you wrote to the flash enough to actually degrade the cells in which case we should expect it to be read only.

The young deaths of SSDs is due to some really poor quality control, they shouldn't be failing so quickly.

That dead ssd drive always had 40-50% free space.
The drive was at 100% health few months back.
The game file save size was 2-3 MB x 10 saves a day etc.

In that same pc a 1T-F3 died in 2yrs that f3 would lock up and stop the pc from booting. I coppied 70% of the files off the f3 before it stopped running for good.

 

[Elixer]

Does it not show up in BIOS anymore ?
Did you try it in another machine after being unplugged for a few days ?

It could be that the SF went into panic mode, and locked... so, if you want to try to see if it still works, I would get one of the live linux boot CDs/DVDs/flash drive and attempt to see if that sees it.
Then you could do a secure erase, and use it for non critical stuff again.

 

[john3850]

I tried that bad ssd in 2 other pc with two sets of sata ports with out it showing up in bios.
I also tried going to the bios first then I put the power then port wire save restart 18x no show up.
My 3 pcs hang for a while searching for the bad ssd drive put never find it.
Tried removing the power and repower and waited a few more times.
I also removed the 6 sticks of memory a few days before the ssd died.
That drive only had one game on it and was only used now once a week.
I copied a few links for that panic mode linux boot CDs/DVDs/flash etc but not tried yet due to it showing in bios first.