Defective ssd?

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munkle

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So I got the ssd from newegg for $60. I updated the firmware to the newest version but in my dell laptop sometimes the drive doesn't show up in the bios when starting up or even upon restarting it will give a no boot disk error, doesn't happen all the time but ocasionally. This is on a fresh windows 7 32bit install. There is no ahci option in bios so I would guess it's using ide.
 
Well the gskill support guy said to rma it if it doesn't show up, so if anyone else has this problem there is the solution.
 
Yeah, if it has issues showing up in the BIOS and you have tried different cables and using it with another system/external enclosure, RMA is the only option.
 
Yeah I've been having fleeting troubles with my RAID for a while now: DLL's going missing, data corruption, typical bad-storage stuff. OC was 12 hrs stable, but I figure because RAID requires that software locate the physical blocks for both reading and writing, maybe my OC was causing the drivers to look up a bad address from time to time and thus write over data that shouldn't. Drove me nuts for weeks.

Thankfully, the drive is just refusing to show up in bios now, so I know its the drive.

With a controller and samsung chips... its suprising to me that this stuff would die, but hey, who knows.
 
Happened to me, after a while said it couldn't be found. Was told to RMA it, and it fixed the problem.
 
Kind of sucks that it happened on a brand new drive but it was going into laptop is for browsing the internet so not a big deal since I didn't wipe the old hard drive, I'll stick it back in and await the replacement.
 
Don't be surprised. I've had 2 DOA's for SSD's from Kingston and Corsair one after another. It just happens. Luckily my third from OCZ works like a charm.
 
Newegg doesn't sell just one SSD but yes that is exactly what one of my corsair f120s did. I bought two of those. One would detect immediately and would give me about 10,000 IOPS for 512 byte random access where the second would have to be connected and disconnected atleast 6 times (also tested it with the same cable and port as the good SSD) before it would recognize and even then I would only get a max of 3,000 IOPS for a 512 byte random access.

I sent the support request to corsair and about 6 hours later at midnight I got an email from them accepting the request and assigned a RMA number.
 
Got my replacement today so far it seems stable, I'm not going to upgrade the firmware to avoid cause any problems.
 
Well the replacement does the same thing. I'm wondering if this gskill drive is just not compatible wtith my laptop or if I got a second defective drive.
 
Just added it my desktop, it doesn't like my desktop. For some reason windows won't load my ide hard drives with it installed. If I reboot sometimes my pc just hangs with the drive, I don't even get the no boot disk error. So looks like this one is going back to newegg as well. I'll probably just sell the replacment I get back.
 
:(Well the replacement just completely died, won't show up at all in the bios and no matter the number of restarts it still wont come back. Tomorrow is rma time, again.
 
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BK_201 said:
What is "THE SSD"? Let us know so we don't touch it.
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Sorry I thought most people would have know it was the famous $60 60gb gskill ssd from newegg. Yeah good deal, but not a good drive.
 
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