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Has my SSD failed?

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kotor

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I had bought the Crucial m4 512GB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT512M4SSD2 for my M17xr2 last year. It had been working fine when today my OS crashed due to I/O errors. I attempted to correct the OS (windows 7) but it failed. So I assumed the OS was corrupt. I plugged in my spare HDD with windows 7 installed to recover data from the Crucial M4. I am getting several I/O errors and most of the files cannot be recovered. Do I quick format the SSD and hope that the I/O errors go away or is the M4 gone bad? What are my options?

The firmware on the drive is 0009. Crucial's current firmware is 040h. Will updating the firmware help the drive?

I had run HDtune pro on the machine (I had the same issue but I could repair the startup) about a 3 months ago and it showed 0.5% bad sectors; now the number of bad sectors is 5.8% with the scan about 25% complete.

Crystaldisk info output is at the following link :

http://imgur.com/Zq6EE

Edit: the hdtune pro health check showed 15.6% bad blocks after 100% completion
 
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updating should help with it.
suggest taking out your serial no. from screenshot and use easier image host like imgur or alike.
Also wait for seniors in this arena of SSD.
 
updating usually won't cause any more issue than you already have and can at times cure corruption in that area of the phyisical space.

I'd also add a secure erase to the freshening protocol to get back a fresh state and eliminate some other variables while you're at it.

If after all that the drive still keeps giving issues?.. it's time to go in for warranty replacement IMO.
 
kotor said:
I had bought the Crucial m4 512GB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT512M4SSD2 for my M17xr2 last year. It had been working fine when today my OS crashed due to I/O errors. I attempted to correct the OS (windows 7) but it failed. So I assumed the OS was corrupt. I plugged in my spare HDD with windows 7 installed to recover data from the Crucial M4. I am getting several I/O errors and most of the files cannot be recovered. Do I quick format the SSD and hope that the I/O errors go away or is the M4 gone bad? What are my options?

The firmware on the drive is 0009. Crucial's current firmware is 040h. Will updating the firmware help the drive?
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I/O errors? Does it sound like the 5200 hour bug for crucial m4's?
 
The power on hours on the drive shows 1258 hours. It generally happens after 5000 hours after drive usage according to the crucial forums? Are my power on hours related to these 5000 hours? I have updated the firmware and I still see errors on the drive.
 
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