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SSD Corsair Neutron Read Error
Hello the Hardware W7 forum,
I have two SSDs in my system, this Corsair Neutron GTX SS 480GB was to act as a backup. I been reading about SSDs not being advisable for backup. I did additionally backup my sys with a WD hard disk last week. I ran HD Tune this morning and received a read error on the SSD. Error shows in the first "block". I have not written to this SSD in 9 months (yes, I know backup more often. I will.)
So, is this due to the time since it was last written? It could easily been a year longer. I deleted the partitions, and then created one partition of the whole 480gb. No error shows up now. Does not make me feel any better. I will be making total backups monthly.
Personal gut feel: There is or are some weak cell(s) in this SSD. They will lose information again.
Also, I am surprised to see the SSD temperatures at 91F and 93F. This is in the morning with room temp of 80F. Computer does have a fan ( a large fan at that). SSD temp is not something I have tracked, but did see this this morning using HD TUNE 2.55.
Does the Corsair have display this problem often? Perhaps 2 years old.
Other SSDs that are more robust?
Does this SSD pull this bad cell cluster (sector or ???) out of the useable space. Actually I guess it does as since there is extra storage space (in reserve). Called overprovisioning??
Thanks for any remarks.
Stan