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90 days and my SSD has failed?
So my desktop PC hung yesterday, and on reboot attempts, offers only "Media test failure. Check cables" or words to that effect. In the past, this ended up being either the END (or near the end) of whatever C-drive I happened to have installed - in fact, that's why last time, I bought and installed a SanDisk 120GB SSD a few months back to replace a possibly-failing WD90GB drive. So...what, here I am AGAIN?
I tried the MBR-restoration routine at MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot Record - but I don't even see the SSD represented in the diskpart display (that's after booting with Win 7 DVD & getting a DOS window open.)
I also tried plugging the SSD into a spare external enclosure yesterday - at first, it would show up in Disk Manager and was showing the full file structure, but wouldn't let me copy or move anything - almost instantly would give me an "unrecoverable $Mft" type error for that drive letter.
Now it doesn't seem to even show up in Disk Manager.
Is this three-month-old SSD really toast? Why do I go through about a drive a year, when they're just sitting there on my desktop? If SSD's are to be trusted, then is there any good database on reliability/MTBF etc?