When to pronounce an SSD dead?
Posted by screwdriverfan@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 7 comments
My brother used to have120gb OCZ vertex (it's like 10+ years old at this point) ssd for boot drive which we replaced 2 years ago. Since then it has been sitting in the closet.
A week ago we tried to put it in another pc but it isn't recognized in bios. I feel like we tried everything under the sun. Different ports on motherboard, different sata cable, different power cable. Even tried a "trick" of only having a power cable connected for 30-60 minutes and let it sit in bios but that didn't do anything either.
The ssd is getting power because it actually physically heats up (warm to touch). Is there anything else that we can try before pronouncing it as dead?
loliii123@reddit
Bro that's basically the drive that put OCZ the company out of business, you had a great run haha. The Sandforce era drives were notorious for failing.
screwdriverfan@reddit (OP)
Well damn. This one was quite a trooper then since it survived for 12 years 😄
rubixd@reddit
Could you please elaborate? The drive was that good or that bad?
loliii123@reddit
They were really bad drives and failed a lot, OCZ went bankrupt because of that.
derrilmc@reddit
SSSSS SSSSS DDDDDED
pythonic_dude@reddit
Check in a different PC and (if you have one, though it's not a bad idea to buy one if you don't since they are dirt cheap anyway) try it as an external drive via an adaptor. If not, rip.
SSDs start to lose data if unpowered for years, but they aren't supposed to die like that though.
aragorn18@reddit
It's dead Jim