SSD stopped being recognized

Friendly reminder : backup your ssd NOW.





...this is just a general message for anyone scrolling through this thread.

I have one last suggestion for you, this has effected me personally and two of my friends.
Go out, and spend the few extra dollars to make sure you have a sata III rated cable on the drive. Many of these drives come with fancy looking cables but some of them are not actually rated.

Well, the good thing is that you can get it replaced - it'll be under warranty. If you can't get it to power up and be recognized, then your data can't be recovered.

I had a similar problem the other day witn an OCZ Vertex. It worked perfectly and when I rebooted it was dead. I stuck it into an enclosure and attached it to another system. When checking in Disk Management, the partition was RAW. That was the end of it. We RMAd it.

AlexRD said:

Hey guys, good news! A power cycle fixed my issue, i recovered everything plus i don't have to deal with RMA!!!
Power Cycle: Turn on the SSD for 20 minutes, and shut it down for 30 seconds, repeat three times.

Hmm, that is quite a new approach. We will have to retain this.

Reminds me how to fix failing HDDs - you put them into the fridge over night. Works in most cases.

Thanks for sharing.

AlexRD said:

Hey guys, good news! A power cycle fixed my issue, i recovered everything plus i don't have to deal with RMA!!!
Power Cycle: Turn on the SSD for 20 minutes, and shut it down for 30 seconds, repeat three times.

Inded it is good news, but I think you should have a backup handy in case.

Here is a link for the 0309 FW http://www.storagereview.com/crucial_m4_0309_firmware_update_5200_hour_bug_released