Bad Sectors on Intel SSD. Need Help.

I run a test on HD tune PRO and on the "health" tab. I have 4 bad sectors.
It says that my drive has damaged sectors.

also, when i run test. My read speed is about 240mb/s but write speed is at40mb/s only.
Here's a screen shot :

 

Hmm I have the OCZ vertex 2 120GB and I have the same problem, only my number in "data" is 1664?!!!

What does this mean? My write speeds have also dropped dramatically, from around 130/140 to about 60-80?

What does this all mean?!

 

Please anyone got any advice on this issue? I'm pullnig my hair out trying to find an answer? Does it mean that my SSD should be returned as sectors on the disk are broken?

 

The writing speed depends on many different aspects, including the speed of your latencies. So far, stay calm because your system already move the information and flagged those sectors so they won't be overwritten anymore. My 3-years old hard drive, with 3 bad sectors is still alive and fine. marking sectors as bad is just a prevention for future writing and data lose.

 

what causes them?thats fine that in may prevent damage or whatever, but my SSD is less than a week old. If there are problems thn I would probably want to return it for a new one problem free lol.

What causes bad sectors?

 

mine was like 2 months old now... and i guess 4 bad sectors isnt that bad... but im worried that this might affect the whole ssd thats why im getting low write speed.

 

4 bad sectors, jeez mine is saying 1664. And yeah my write speeds are farked now. So annoying. Kinda regretting buying this thing.

 

u serious?? dude i guess u need to do something with that... 1664 isnt normal...

 

every bit in your memory flash is a small swith on/off. Think like a tiny bulb which break without warning. In a normal 80 gb you will have over 6 billions of them. The probability one of them fails is like the same probability a bulb fails.Dependds on many aspects, specially in the building quality materials and technology used. That's why S.M.A.R.T. technology exists, to find this errors, flagged and make an statistical analysis of the data and state of your HDD/SDD to calculate the lifetime of your disk. Depending on the frequency and magnitude of the errors events and the algorithms SMART reports how healhty is your disk. You can live years with some errors with some errors but SMART scream like crazy indicating the lifetime of your disk.

To the guy with above 1600 errors, I recommend him make a backup and request a replacement. That's unusual.

 

ok I run my SSD benchmark again. and it seems that its fine now.. im getting 70mb/s on write which is the normal.. adn 250mb/s on read... ive done this after scanning the drive with anti-virus... and i found some trojans and viruses on it... -.-

 

its weird though when i scan with microsoft it says the disk is fine no issues, only with hd tune is it showing issues??

 

Here it is. The SSD is only 5 days old, how could it be so damaged??


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Because all the readable sectors are fine. The bad ones are marked in the MBR and any health disk app read this to indicate the bad sector. This kind of programs DO NOT check/read the whole HDD/SDD, just both the SMART and MBR information (did you notice how fast the report is given?). Windows won't either read or write any flagged bad sector.

 

But none the less its saying I have bad sectors s that does mean infact that there is a problem with my SSD? Correct? Is it anything to worry about? Onl because my write speeds dropped a lot.

 

I'm not an expert, but your snapshot indicate you have only one big error which involve the movement of many sectors at the same time. It's like a whole area was moved at the same time. My concern actually is your SDD is only 5 days old. Ask the store where you get your SDD about this and ask for a replacement. As this events are unpredictable, you can have either another big errors across many sectors again or live with this error for years and your sdd performing as never had issues.

BTW, are you suffering missing key strokes as you type in??