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    M17 SSD Raid 0 Problem

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Mmcxii, Aug 24, 2010.

  1. Mmcxii

    Mmcxii Newbie

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    I have a M17 that is not quite a year old. Today I got a warning that one of the Samsung SSDs is returning an error. I have 2x 256GB in Raid 0. The machine has worked well for what I use it for: an entertainment machine and some gaming (mostly gaming). I really don't do much that would foul a hard drive, much less an SSD hard drive. I have the thing set to do a disk check and to repair sectors upon next startup. If that works, well then great. If it doesn't, I might have to replace a drive (or both) and start over. I see there is a list of component drivers and which order to load them in another thread, this is valuable. I'm thinking about Intel X25 SSDs or something just as fast with some TRIM available in Raid 0. I guess I'm wondering and asking the forum what goes wrong that makes an SSD go bad? I'm hoping I'm not doing something that brings this on, but any help would be appreciated.

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  2. DHC

    DHC Notebook Evangelist

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    Had the same thing one time...M17 working fine, next day my HDD dies..just out of the blue...

    I think it's just one of those things you cannot avoid....lifespan/bad luck.

    You might be lucky and be able to repair it with some sort of tool, i know i couldn't.

    Good luck.