- Dec 11, 2006
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Long Version: for the past 2-3 weeks or so, I've had random BSODs.
This is my watercooled windows 7 rig in my sig. Before the BSODs over the past few weeks my system was running great. I tried tweaking down the memory speed, adding more voltage to the core, bought a new video card.
Still the BSODs continued to plague me. I had a plan to get rid of my old OCZ Vertex (1st gen, the kind that required a destructive upgrade to firmware) and replace it with a second-gen Intel SSD, which were known for being rock solid stable but not very fast.
I wasn't psyched about the upgrade really but mostly was looking to upgrade to have more disk space (120 GB on OCZ Vertex vs. 160 GB on Intel). To get the Intel SSD ready, I wanted to run a complete nuke on the drive via the Intel utility to make sure it was completely clear, but kept getting an error message that the drive was secure locked.
Having read through some forums, it recommended a custom Linux boot called "gparted", so I finally got a USB stick with the gparted live boot on there, booted up, and finally was able to "secure erase" the Intel drive, then cloned over the OCZ Vertex to the Intel drive. My plan was to then erase the OCZ drive and use that in an old laptop I had, to give the laptop some pep.
So I go to secure erase the OCZ drive and notice it's not even an option. I do the regular full format and then notice the drive has some red marks (errors) on it. The OCZ SMART table on their website only seems to exist for the Vertex2 + models, so the field values don't make a lot of sense. I'm wondering now - should I just throw the drive out, or is there any hope for an old SSD that has mostly depleted NAND cells?
Every since swapping the SSD the computer has been rock solid stable, so it was definitely the drive.
Cliff Notes:
* computer randomly BSOD'ing, found it was the OCZ Vertex (first gen)
* Replaced SSD with newer gen, works like a champ
* What do I do with this old Vertex that seems to be mostly depleted?
This is my watercooled windows 7 rig in my sig. Before the BSODs over the past few weeks my system was running great. I tried tweaking down the memory speed, adding more voltage to the core, bought a new video card.
Still the BSODs continued to plague me. I had a plan to get rid of my old OCZ Vertex (1st gen, the kind that required a destructive upgrade to firmware) and replace it with a second-gen Intel SSD, which were known for being rock solid stable but not very fast.
I wasn't psyched about the upgrade really but mostly was looking to upgrade to have more disk space (120 GB on OCZ Vertex vs. 160 GB on Intel). To get the Intel SSD ready, I wanted to run a complete nuke on the drive via the Intel utility to make sure it was completely clear, but kept getting an error message that the drive was secure locked.
Having read through some forums, it recommended a custom Linux boot called "gparted", so I finally got a USB stick with the gparted live boot on there, booted up, and finally was able to "secure erase" the Intel drive, then cloned over the OCZ Vertex to the Intel drive. My plan was to then erase the OCZ drive and use that in an old laptop I had, to give the laptop some pep.
So I go to secure erase the OCZ drive and notice it's not even an option. I do the regular full format and then notice the drive has some red marks (errors) on it. The OCZ SMART table on their website only seems to exist for the Vertex2 + models, so the field values don't make a lot of sense. I'm wondering now - should I just throw the drive out, or is there any hope for an old SSD that has mostly depleted NAND cells?
Every since swapping the SSD the computer has been rock solid stable, so it was definitely the drive.
Cliff Notes:
* computer randomly BSOD'ing, found it was the OCZ Vertex (first gen)
* Replaced SSD with newer gen, works like a champ
* What do I do with this old Vertex that seems to be mostly depleted?
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