Question OCZ Vertex 2 dies?

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Have you ever had an SSD drive die on you? If so how long did it last, and how did you diagnose/confirm it died?


I have a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter for my SSD drive. I pulled the SSD drive out of the device, via the USB connector, while the device was turned on and AFAIK it killed the SSD drive. I've tried directly connecting the SSD to the power connector from the PSU while plugging a SATA cable into my SATA PCI adapter card and it doesn't get recognized and it actually crashes my PC. I've cross checked the same SATA cable to the SATA adapter card, and power connector from the PSU, with the HDD drive that is usually connected to the SATA cable and power cord and when the HDD drive boots up it's recognized and runs like normal. I haven't cross checked the USB 3.0 to SATA adapter currently but it seems the SSD drive is having issues. If it crashes my PC just from plugging it in, what does that even mean?

 

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Tried the old Baking the hardware in the oven trick and it didn't work.

 

[razel]

I've yet to have one die on it's own. Probably owned/bought 50+. All are still in use today.

Only one died and it was due to early SSD tech/firmware. It was a Kingston SSDNow from 2009. Wanted to secure erase it before selling. Kingston didn't have a secure erase utility so I used an early one by a San Diego University. Ended up bricking the drive. Kingston kindly sent out a new one. The secure erase tool itself was fine since it worked prior on another Kingston SSD and regular HDDs.

 

[VirtualLarry]

AFAIK, Vertex 2 drives didn't really have much / any PLP (Power Loss Protection). They were especially vulnerable to have power yanked; they would corrupt themselves.

 

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AFAIK, Vertex 2 drives didn't really have much / any PLP (Power Loss Protection). They were especially vulnerable to have power yanked; they would corrupt themselves.

I'm really surprised it won't even recognize in my desktop PC, and then crashes it within 15 seconds.

 

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How do I turn a Primary boot drive into a 1 partition storage drive? I saved a family members laptop HDD and I was thinking of using this in-place of the dead OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. As the HDD is it has a 1.4GB (Recovery Partition) which is closest to the left, then there is the (Active, Primary Partition) on the right. I just got done reformatting the active primary partition but I want to make the disk on partition. When I right click the recovery partition it only offers "Help"

 

[VirtualLarry]

If you don't care about saving anything on the drive, then open a Command Prompt window, then type DISKPART (Enter).

Then in DISKPART, type LIST DISK, find the disk that you want to completely wipe, type SELECT DISK (disk number).

Type LIST DISK again, verify that there is an asterix next to the disk number, and then type CLEAN (THIS WILL ERASE THE DISK's FIRST million and LAST million sectors).

Type EXIT, and then EXIT.

Once back in Disk Management, it should prompt to "Initialize" the disk, either GPT or MBR. For any modern system, choose GPT.

Then just create and format a volume on it as normal, to use as a data disk.

 

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If you don't care about saving anything on the drive, then open a Command Prompt window, then type DISKPART (Enter).

Then in DISKPART, type LIST DISK, find the disk that you want to completely wipe, type SELECT DISK (disk number).

Type LIST DISK again, verify that there is an asterix next to the disk number, and then type CLEAN (THIS WILL ERASE THE DISK's FIRST million and LAST million sectors).

Type EXIT, and then EXIT.

Once back in Disk Management, it should prompt to "Initialize" the disk, either GPT or MBR. For any modern system, choose GPT.

Then just create and format a volume on it as normal, to use as a data disk.

It's just gonna be a storage drive for transferring files, watching media off of it on Smart TV's, etc. Which is better, MBR or GPT?

EDIT: Thanks, I used GPT as MBR has limitations.

Thanks a bunch! Saved me some moola

 

[Shmee]

You mean you revived it? Awesome! I was not expecting a simple diskpart clean to fix it!

Also, does it support secure erase? Would be good to know, as that could have worked too, and could help the drive.

 

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You mean you revived it? Awesome! I was not expecting a simple diskpart clean to fix it!

Also, does it support secure erase? Would be good to know, as that could have worked too, and could help the drive.

Unfortunately the OCZ is dead, afaik. I did however create 2 x 2.5" HDD storage drives that were pulled from laptops, both 500GB or >. They've been sitting for the longest time, and fortunately they work with the USB to SATA adapter. So now I have 2 huge drives that replaced an old 119GB SSD drive that both work in the same fashion as the SSD (OCZ) drive was being used, yay

 

[aigomorla]

Have you ever had an SSD drive die on you? If so how long did it last, and how did you diagnose/confirm it died?

ive had a few...

Ignoring the obvious like the sata port melting because you used a bad sata power adapter....

The first sign is the capacity on said SSD will shrink.
The SSD will not register in windows or using a external USB adapter.
The SSD will take FOREVER to load file directory in windows explorer..

The thing that hurts the most about SSD's is when there about to die, it goes out in a great big nuclear fireball, and just dies if its the controller, and if its the actual NAND it will shrink in capacity, or just take forever to data, hence to support my 2nd and 3rd comment.

Tried the old Baking the hardware in the oven trick and it didn't work.

Don't EVER do this again..
This is some myth that it will allow the IC's to reball itself on the PCB, but it can infact cause more damage then being an actual Hail Mary.

 

[Shmee]

I have been pretty lucky with SSDs, only ones died were my 256GB Agility 2, its RMA replacement, and an 850 Evo 500GB, which was replaced under warranty. I have the 2nd dead OCZ, no warranty now obviously. The 850 Evo replacement is working fine.

 

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I'm still kinda holding my breathe with this. I hope it works!

I've tested the USB to SATA adapter with one of the 2.5" HDD's and it's functioning correctly, so least I know that is working.

 

[Shmee]

Why aren't you using a native SATA connection?

 

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Why aren't you using a native SATA connection?

I was running 2 SSD's off native that were constantly active while 4 more HDD storage drives were also on native: on a power strip that I could manually turn on when I would do backups. The backups killed the native SATA ports on two X58 boards in less than a year. I just swapped out my Asrock X58 Extreme for this EVGA X58 Classified 141 E770. Luckily I'm still able to use 1 of the SSD drives off the native SATA ports while the other is on the onboard RAID controller in single use mode. The other HDDs are now on an old PCI SATA adapter card, which I need to find a PCIe SATA adapter card, ASAP. The PCI adapter card is a Rosewill using a Sil3114 chip and it works fairly well. Hasn't died on me so..

Any suggestions for a PCIe SATA adapter card?

 

[Shmee]

Can you get a newer motherboard with more and faster SATA ports? Why do you need so many HDDs?

 

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Can you get a newer motherboard with more and faster SATA ports? Why do you need so many HDDs?

I'm holding out for the next AMD motherboards and CPUs. I'd rather not have a fan on the chipset if I went with an X570, it's one of the reasons I bought the Auros Xtreme, but I'll probably upgrade the chip in the gaming rig (X570) and then reallocate the 3800X for a main rig with the newer AMD AM4 boards. I'd still like to use an SATA adapter so I don't burn out the native SATA ports on the new AMD board.

I do software raid 1, so the 4 HDD drives are actually 2, but I've had them for 10+yrs and they are large capacity 1TB Samsung F3 drives

 

[Shmee]

I would'nt really worry about burning out SATA ports on new boards, at least not for years and years, like over a decade.

 

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I would rather burn out a $50 SATA adapter than burn out the native SATA ports on a new motherboard.

 

[Shmee]

? By the time your motherboard would fail, it would be far from new...

 

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? By the time your motherboard would fail, it would be far from new...

How long is the warranty with that recommendation, haha