I think my SSD is dead

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SolidBladez

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I have a couple of Micron M600 1TB drives which I ran in software RAID-0 (dumb but I did have backups). Back in May this year I had them sitting on my desk until my next build which didn't come along until last month. I finally got them installed and was planning on reinitializing the RAID within Windows (I've done it a few times, no issues) but the first thing I noticed was that my rig was booting into Windows really slowly, like 4 min instead of 8 seconds. I wasn't able to re-establish the RAID inside Disk Management and on top of that one of the SSDs isn't showing any SMART status within CrystalDiskInfo.

I loaded up Parted Magic and did a secure erase on both drives but again, one of the drives wouldn't erase, kept saying "Erase Error". Same goes for the drive info - wouldn't show anything on that one drive.

I did a quick search and noticed Micron's site had a firmware update for this particular model. I was able to flash both drives but the "defective" drive still wouldn't show up correctly within the OS.

So I'm thinking it's not a firmware issue, more like a hardware issue with the NAND or something.

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Oh and I did try different computers, various SATA cables, and SATA ports.
 
Do these drives have any sort of management software that might be able to access them directly? I noticed a slow-down on my desktop SSD (a Sandisk Extreme 240gb from a few years back) - I'd get random stutters here and there. SanDisk provides a decent tool to check their drives and it showed multiple failures in the SMART, I think one parameter had 140 above a threshold of 3.

If you have recent images / backups of the RAID, you could destroy it and see if you can format just one of the drives. If they don't take a format, you know they're done.
 
drescherjm said:
If you have a warranty RMA the defective drive.
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Sadly I bought them used and after checking Micron's website it seems like they only RMA drives bought directly from their storefront.

Spidey329 said:
Do these drives have any sort of management software that might be able to access them directly? I noticed a slow-down on my desktop SSD (a Sandisk Extreme 240gb from a few years back) - I'd get random stutters here and there. SanDisk provides a decent tool to check their drives and it showed multiple failures in the SMART, I think one parameter had 140 above a threshold of 3.

If you have recent images / backups of the RAID, you could destroy it and see if you can format just one of the drives. If they don't take a format, you know they're done.
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To be honest I don't know. Since it doesn't even take a format I'm just going to assume it's gone.
 
Did you try a new SATA cable? I have had that cause grief with drives and SSD's in the past.
 
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