My SSD died!

[JoesMorgue]

To all you people here that said "don't worry about writing to the SSD" !

It died at 6 months old! [2 days ago]

They are closed for the holiday, so I can't do crap about it...

NOW, my machine is pitifully slow, and all my work was lost...

 

[LittleJay]

I had a 500 Gb Seagate HDD die on me after only 2 months, so it doesn't what kind of computer hardware you buy, sometimes it can defective. Unfortunately thats life.

 

[Britton30]

Right, it didn't fail due to writes, I don't think one could do that in 6 months. Could be the SSD was bad to start with, a power spike, or such.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Yeah, that's what warranties are for. 6 months is well into any warranty.

As for lost work, none said SSD couldn't possibly fail. Backups remain critical for all the important data.

 

[JoesMorgue]

By work I meant configuring the system and such!

I procrastinated and procrastinated about copying the user profile on that machine, and it was PERFECT! [Now it's LOST] MOST of the data that machine accesses is on my server, which auto-archives.

I think ALL the drives in it are SATA 1, or MAYBE [doubtful] SATA 2, so I took a HUGE speed hit...

Some of the gadgets I had won't DL. [Weatherbug is the most important...The source is down]

I had a few tweaks on the system, and for the MOST part it was pretty good. Now I have to start over!

I'm currently researching delayed start, and trying to figure out what I can delay, make manual or disable completely...

 

[Outlander]

I went through the same thing...There are a lot of tricks on Google that you can try.....If the controller is bad I suspect you are lost. Have you tried using a converter and trying to access it as an external USB drive? If you can you might be able to retrieve some of your stuff.......I do feel your pain. ...Just out of curiosity, what brand is/was it?

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Oh, if you want to save that (and I'm with you as I do tweak my system as well and have a few dozen GB of Steam Games and my broadband is crap), clone your disk regularly on a similarly-sized HDD. It's mildly annoying but in case something dies you will just clone again and go. I've seen so much HDDs fail that really, I don't want to risk putting all my eggs in a basket (I do techsupport as well). I use EaseUS partition master, but there are a lot of similar programs that can do it.

And I doubt you have SATA I hdds, as that would be really prehistoric, but those are the times when you really feel the difference between HDDs and SSDs.

 

[D3LL]

Its very rare for them to die within 6 months. Might have just been a defective one.

 

[Vendetta]

The HUGE danger about using an SSD is that once it's fried, you can say goodbye to your data forever if it's not backed up. The regular drives, you still have a chance to saving your data by putting the platter into another casing.

 

[Maguscreed]

To all you people here that said "don't worry about writing to the SSD" !

It died at 6 months old! [2 days ago]

They are closed for the holiday, so I can't do crap about it...

NOW, my machine is pitifully slow, and all my work was lost...

Mine has been under constant usage ... and by that I mean for all practical purposes running 24/7 for just over a year now.
I took no steps to reduce read/writes, I moved nothing to other drives and didn't do any of the prep most people recommend for these drives.

After all that abuse it's just fine.
I did actually have 2 mechanical drives die in that same time period. I don't know if you got a dud or bought a bad model or what.
The truth of the matter though is that a typical ssd should be reliable for around 5 years. Which is basically the same I would expect from a old mechanical drive. ...and while both are fully capable of lasting longer. I really don't expect much more than that from them.


That being said. Sorry about the loss of your data, I know that hurts.
ALWAYS, have at least two copies of important stuff.
I tend to keep my important stuff on an external, just in case the computer happens to explode or something.

 

[netadict]

JoesMorgue, the next time you reinstall and configure and tweak your system, you will find things that you had previously overlooked, so this time your pc will work better.

 

[JoesMorgue]

To all you people here that said "don't worry about writing to the SSD" !

It died at 6 months old! [2 days ago]

They are closed for the holiday, so I can't do crap about it...

NOW, my machine is pitifully slow, and all my work was lost...

Mine has been under constant usage ... and by that I mean for all practical purposes running 24/7 for just over a year now.
I took no steps to reduce read/writes, I moved nothing to other drives and didn't do any of the prep most people recommend for these drives.

After all that abuse it's just fine.
I did actually have 2 mechanical drives die in that same time period. I don't know if you got a dud or bought a bad model or what.
The truth of the matter though is that a typical ssd should be reliable for around 5 years. Which is basically the same I would expect from a old mechanical drive. ...and while both are fully capable of lasting longer. I really don't expect much more than that from them.


That being said. Sorry about the loss of your data, I know that hurts.
ALWAYS, have at least two copies of important stuff.
I tend to keep my important stuff on an external, just in case the computer happens to explode or something.

For the record: This is EVERYTHING I bought:
BR: Amazon.com: 8X BLU RAY WRITER BULK WITH SOFTWARE: MP3 Players & Accessories
PS: Amazon.com: 800 Watt 800W 120mm Fan ATX Power Supply 12V 2.3 EPS12V 2.92 SLI-ready PCI-Express SATA 20/24 PIN Intel AMD by KENTEK: Computers & Accessories
SSD: Amazon.com: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SATA 3Gb/s OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5'' Solid State Drive (SSD) with up to 285MB/s read and 50K IOPS write: Electronics
MB: Amazon.com: ASUS M5A88-M AM3+ AMD 880G HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard: Electronics
CPU: Amazon.com: AMD FX-8150 8-Core Black Edition Processor Socket AM3+ FD8150FRGUBOX: Computers & Accessories
RAM: Amazon.com: Corsair Dominator 16GB (4x 4GB) Desktop RAM Kit: Computers & Accessories

PARTIALLY, I'm adding this to answer your question, partially, I'm adding it so I can point to it later if anybody asks me in the future.

ALL My Docs, Music, Photos, Favorites, & Desktop files sit on my server, the data loss is restricted to the setup of the OS itself. My server makes monthly backups of folders for a second copy. My Virtual XP sat on another drive, so I didn't even lose that. [Now, someone here get my TV to work: http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/272262-olevia-tv-not-behaving-properly.html ]

Some people have pointed out that my drives are probably NOT SATA I, but they are old, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are. I'm not used to seeing the "Welcome" screen with that little circle during the boot...

 

[JoesMorgue]

JoesMorgue, the next time you reinstall and configure and tweak your system, you will find things that you had previously overlooked, so this time your pc will work better.

Thanks for the encouragement!

I will also find issues that I solved before that don't want to be solved again...

 

[whs]

The most important lesson you should have learned is that one has to make frequent images to be prepared for such a disaster case. I image 3x per week. When one of my 6 SSDs dies, I am prepared. But they seem to enjoy a good life - some since nearly 4 years.

 

[JoesMorgue]

The most important lesson you should have learned is that one has to make frequent images to be prepared for such a disaster case. I image 3x per week. When one of my 6 SSDs dies, I am prepared. But they seem to enjoy a good life - some since nearly 4 years.

3 images a week!?!?!? What do you do to your machine to change it that much? [Or are your critical folders on the boot drive too?]

 

[whs]

My user files are in a seperate partition. But I am on the PC appr. 6 hours per day (and no gaming which I hate). A lot of things change all the time - both in the system and in the data partitions.

I used to make an image each day - at boot. But found that this was a bit of an overkill. The system images in 6 minutes and the data in 8-10 minutes depending which disk I use for the images. I have Satas, eSatas and USB3 as choices.

 

[JoesMorgue]

My user files are in a seperate partition. But I am on the PC appr. 6 hours per day (and no gaming which I hate). A lot of things change all the time - both in the system and in the data partitions.

I used to make an image each day - at boot. But found that this was a bit of an overkill. The system images in 6 minutes and the data in 8-10 minutes depending which disk I use for the images. I have Satas, eSatas and USB3 as choices.

How did you do images at boot?

I never understood the point of multiple partitions on a disk. OK, Viruses that focus on a drive usually focus on C:\, but drive issues usually take out all partition. EVERY machine I have built had a single partition on the drive because of this. Can you explain?

 

[Golden]

I never understood the point of multiple partitions on a disk.

Its quicker to image, re-install and backup and manage images of smaller partitions - my C: partion is about 60GB, and it only takes about 20 mins to image it. Imagine if it was 1TB...............

 

[JoesMorgue]

I never understood the point of multiple partitions on a disk.

Its quicker to image, re-install and backup and manage images of smaller partitions - my C: partion is about 60GB, and it only takes about 20 mins to image it. Imagine if it was 1TB...............

Does it really take much time to image blank spaces on the drive?

My server's [Win 2003 Enterprise] boot drive is 12 Gigs, my 8-Core's is 120, but [was] SSD.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

no, it's not blank spaces, you can leave data and other stuff you don't feel like imaging in another partition that won't be imaged.

For me is irrelevant, this rig mobo's sata are all SATA I so it takes a long while anyway. (yes, I had to put a jumper on HDDs to tell them to run at SATA I or everything was unstable)