So my SSD died....

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:20 am

It also has better moderators.

dusanc · Post by **dusanc** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:29 am

Btw if you have SMART monitoring active how come you didn't notice increasing bad sector count?
AFAIK 90% of the time SSDs die slowly over time, when they loose all the backup sector space.

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:43 am

DusanC wrote:QUOTE (DusanC @ Feb 14 2012, 07:29 AM) Btw if you have SMART monitoring active how come you didn't notice increasing bad sector count?
AFAIK 90% of the time STDs die slowly over time, when they loose all the backup sector space.

Spunkmeyer · Post by **Spunkmeyer** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:51 am

SMART technology is very inconsistent amongst SSDs. Newer models may be better, but earlier models provide no info whatsoever, pretty much everything is bogus.

In any case SSDs don't develop bad sectors over time or die as a matter of course. If you were to use one for many many years it would eventually lose all free space, eventually diminishing to a read-only state and becoming unusable, if. But you can still copy your data off.

Mine just failed...probably had either part of its flash or the controller go bad.

Post by **BackTrak** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:54 am

Spunkmeyer wrote:QUOTE (Spunkmeyer @ Feb 13 2012, 08:14 PM) industrial data bears

Grrrrrrrrr!!! Moar DATA!!!!

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Edit: Still laughing about Linux fixing a bicycle without a core recompile with anything less than 30 precompiler flags.

This will probably be less funny when I sober up.

Spunkmeyer · Post by **Spunkmeyer** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:56 am

Oh @#(!! Is that what became of Pook!?

DonKarnage · Post by **DonKarnage** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:05 pm

didn't you hear what happened?

Spunkmeyer · Post by **Spunkmeyer** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:19 pm

I flashed the firmware and did a secure erase, and now it's working fine.

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How does an erase fix bad sectors, I dunno, but w/e. I'm happy. $#@! HDs.

Interestingly, the SMART info from the manufacturer's software displays tons of good info and the drive looks perfectly fine there. I should get better SMART software.

Also, Acronis is a piece of @#(! that won't restore your system partition unless you have several GB free on it

raumvogel · Post by **raumvogel** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:35 pm

Sounds to me like the bad sectors were software based, not hardware based..if you know what I mean. Solid state means no surface materiel to flake off and fail. By rights, it shouldn't fail unless:

1. the control circuit fails

2. the physical memory chips fail which could cause a domino effect on data storage.

3. the "bios" for the drive (flash eeprom) borked causing it to be confuzzled.

Spunkmeyer · Post by **Spunkmeyer** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:39 pm

Yup. I got the SMART info before I flashed it, and it didn't report any bad sectors (even though it was failing at that point) so maybe the flash got corrupted somehow.