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Problems with Samsung 830 SSD

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PatrickCah

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Hi all,

For past few months my PC has had intermittent crashes. The computer becomes unresponsive while watching video files or if I leave it unattended for a while. It has never frozen when gaming or any other stressful scenarios. The only solution is to reset the computer. It doesn't happen very often which is why I have ignored up until now.
Samsung Magician reports the drive health to be good. However, when I run Seagate's Seatools the drive fails every test.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
Check system log files, especially those which fall into the time frame of crashes.
 
Does seatools support SSDs just locked up my system twice trying to run sea tool using ram drives and a few ssd.
You need to look at the S.M.A.R.T.attributes.
I would look at the S.M.A.R.T.attributes with Magician or CrystalDiskInfo .
I trust CrystalDiskInfo and Magician much more then seatools even for my Seagate 600 ssd .
 
I had a 830 die on me like that... send it back for a RMA.
SMART didn't show anything wrong, but, it was obvious something was wrong with it.
 
Hi Elixer,

That's what I am leaning towards. It's still under warranty. Event log lists 9 separate instances where the PC shutdown unexpectedly. It started last September and it never happened prior to that.
 
Oh, that reminds me, yeah, Samsung gives you back a refurb unit, so, you really have no idea what is refurbed about it...
They zero out the SMART data as well, so it is impossible to know the status of the NAND.

That was the good thing about OCZ, they sent back a new unit on each RMA.
 
Elixer said:
Oh, that reminds me, yeah, Samsung gives you back a refurb unit, so, you really have no idea what is refurbed about it...
They zero out the SMART data as well, so it is impossible to know the status of the NAND.

That was the good thing about OCZ, they sent back a new unit on each RMA.
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Yes, that is true. I really have no idea what I have, hence the reason I say I can't really trust it. I've gone to Plextor and Intel for SSDs...
 
I have a refurbished 830 that's been running as the system drive in a server for the past nine months without a hitch. FWIW.
 
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