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Well, don't I feel stupid for trying out a refurb 240GB OCZ SSD drive.
I own three 120GB units of the same model, and they have been very reliable for me. So I figured the refurbs would be too (same reliable firmware, right?)
I installed it into a Foxconn AT-5570 NanoPC. Initial install was mostly uneventful, although the first boot after booting from the install USB stick froze up, so I just rebooted.
Well, fast-forward a few days, I wake up and my TV has a black screen, asking for a boot device. I determine it to be my NanoPC, so I reboot and same thing. So I check the BIOS, and the SSD isn't in the boot options.
I think, uh-oh, the SSD went Tango-Uniform.
I turned it off for 5 min., and then the SSD was detected. But it still wouldn't boot. So I booted the installer stick and did a boot repair, which worked.
I was finally able to boot Win7 HP 64-bit. I couldn't open CoreTemp, gave me an error.
So I scheduled a disk check on C and rebooted.
The disk check froze checking indexes. So I rebooted, another disk check, same thing.
So I rebooted again, cancelled the disk check, and downloaded HDTune. AMD SATA drivers prevented me from reading SMART data, so I did a surface scan. Got halfway through the surface scan, with mutiple red blocks, and HDTune froze completely. So did the OS.
So I powered off, then restarted with the Win7 install stick. I first formatted the SSD partition (TRIM pass), then I did a CLEAN ALL using Diskpart, then repartitioned and formatted twice (more TRIM passes).
Then I re-installed my HTPC without issue.
I re-installed HDtune, and did another disk surface scan. All green squares, up until around 156MB out of 240. Then it stopped scanning. However, I was able to exit the program. However, I did another scan, and now the entire first row turns red, then each square turns yellow as it scans. I rebooted, and same thing. However, it doesn't report any damaged sectors.
Edit: Hdtune scan completed sucessfully, no damaged sectors. (Think the SSD is safe to continue using?)
I'm a bit curious as to the root cause of the issue - bad refurb, or too high temps for the SSD? The NanoPC is passively-cooled, and the CPU runs 72-74C. Is that environment too hot for an SSD? Are mSATA SSDs more rugged, temp-wise? I know the NUCs had temp issues with their mSATA SSDs failing too, due to too-high temps - and the NUCs have a fan!
http://www.pcper.com:8080/news/General-Tech/New-Intel-PCN-Addresses-NUC-Overheating-Issues
I own three 120GB units of the same model, and they have been very reliable for me. So I figured the refurbs would be too (same reliable firmware, right?)
I installed it into a Foxconn AT-5570 NanoPC. Initial install was mostly uneventful, although the first boot after booting from the install USB stick froze up, so I just rebooted.
Well, fast-forward a few days, I wake up and my TV has a black screen, asking for a boot device. I determine it to be my NanoPC, so I reboot and same thing. So I check the BIOS, and the SSD isn't in the boot options.
I think, uh-oh, the SSD went Tango-Uniform.
I turned it off for 5 min., and then the SSD was detected. But it still wouldn't boot. So I booted the installer stick and did a boot repair, which worked.
I was finally able to boot Win7 HP 64-bit. I couldn't open CoreTemp, gave me an error.
So I scheduled a disk check on C and rebooted.
The disk check froze checking indexes. So I rebooted, another disk check, same thing.
So I rebooted again, cancelled the disk check, and downloaded HDTune. AMD SATA drivers prevented me from reading SMART data, so I did a surface scan. Got halfway through the surface scan, with mutiple red blocks, and HDTune froze completely. So did the OS.
So I powered off, then restarted with the Win7 install stick. I first formatted the SSD partition (TRIM pass), then I did a CLEAN ALL using Diskpart, then repartitioned and formatted twice (more TRIM passes).
Then I re-installed my HTPC without issue.
I re-installed HDtune, and did another disk surface scan. All green squares, up until around 156MB out of 240. Then it stopped scanning. However, I was able to exit the program. However, I did another scan, and now the entire first row turns red, then each square turns yellow as it scans. I rebooted, and same thing. However, it doesn't report any damaged sectors.
Edit: Hdtune scan completed sucessfully, no damaged sectors. (Think the SSD is safe to continue using?)
I'm a bit curious as to the root cause of the issue - bad refurb, or too high temps for the SSD? The NanoPC is passively-cooled, and the CPU runs 72-74C. Is that environment too hot for an SSD? Are mSATA SSDs more rugged, temp-wise? I know the NUCs had temp issues with their mSATA SSDs failing too, due to too-high temps - and the NUCs have a fan!
http://www.pcper.com:8080/news/General-Tech/New-Intel-PCN-Addresses-NUC-Overheating-Issues
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