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I had an SSD completely fail after only a month of use. It was a cheap-ish KingSpec C3000 128GB. It wasn't recognized in BIOS. Surprisingly, doing something cal

by amatic 11y ago

I had an SSD completely fail after only a month of use. It was a cheap-ish KingSpec C3000 128GB. It wasn't recognized in BIOS. Surprisingly, doing something called 'power cycling' made the disk work again. It still works after 2 years of use. http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-did-my-SSD-quot-disappear-quot-from-my-system/ta-p/65215 http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-did-my-SSD-quot... > "A sudden power loss is a common cause for a system to fail to recognize an SSD. In most cases, your SSD can be returned to normal operating condition by completing a power cycle, a process that will take approximately one hour. We recommend you perform this procedure on a desktop computer because it allows you to only connect the SATA power connection, which improves the odds of the power cycle being successful. However, a USB enclosure with an external power source will also work. Apple and Windows desktop users follow the same steps. 1. Once you have the drive connected and sitting idle, simply power on the computer and wait for 20 minutes. We recommend that you don't use the computer during this process. 2. Power the computer down and disconnect the drive from the power connector for 30 seconds. 3. Reconnect the drive, and repeat steps 1 and 2 one more time. 4. Reconnect the drive normally, and boot the computer to your operating system. "

dsr_ 11y ago
A $15 USB3-SATA external interface will do this just as well, and you don't even have to plug it into a computer. As a bonus, it's a good thing to have lying around a workshop where you might want to temporarily plug in a drive to investigate it. (Edit: wow, somehow I missed the line you had about that in your post. My apologies.)
- tropin 11y ago
  Could you recommend any? At our workshop we use Startech's but I recall them being way costlier than 15 bucks.
  - dsr_ 11y ago
    NewEgg has a bunch of nonames for $7-12 which appear to be identical to the ones in my lab, which also have no identifying marks. Separate AC-DC power supply brick going to a switch and a 4-pin Molex, separate Molex-SATA power converter, and a small black box that takes USB on one side and has a SATA port and 3.5/2.5 PATA on the edges.
bbulkow 11y ago
While some of those Crucial drives are Micron and pretty reasonable, please beware of comparing "consumer drives" and drives from 2012 / 2013 with today's drives. The real problem with drives is their firmware has to garbage collect. So, yes, you can push a drive into a corner where it can't escape. Not to name names, but I've had this happen in my company's testing of different drives. That also means there are peculiar results, such as needing to restart the drive, or let it sit for an hour, and seem much better. Our experience with MLC ( managing and observing many customers' Flash deployments ) has been very positive, and when using major manufacturers' drives works very well.

by amatic 11y ago

dsr_ 11y ago

A $15 USB3-SATA external interface will do this just as well, and you don't even have to plug it into a computer. As a bonus, it's a good thing to have lying around a workshop where you might want to temporarily plug in a drive to investigate it. (Edit: wow, somehow I missed the line you had about that in your post. My apologies.)

tropin 11y ago
Could you recommend any? At our workshop we use Startech's but I recall them being way costlier than 15 bucks.
- dsr_ 11y ago
  NewEgg has a bunch of nonames for $7-12 which appear to be identical to the ones in my lab, which also have no identifying marks. Separate AC-DC power supply brick going to a switch and a 4-pin Molex, separate Molex-SATA power converter, and a small black box that takes USB on one side and has a SATA port and 3.5/2.5 PATA on the edges.

bbulkow 11y ago

While some of those Crucial drives are Micron and pretty reasonable, please beware of comparing "consumer drives" and drives from 2012 / 2013 with today's drives. The real problem with drives is their firmware has to garbage collect. So, yes, you can push a drive into a corner where it can't escape. Not to name names, but I've had this happen in my company's testing of different drives. That also means there are peculiar results, such as needing to restart the drive, or let it sit for an hour, and seem much better. Our experience with MLC ( managing and observing many customers' Flash deployments ) has been very positive, and when using major manufacturers' drives works very well.