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My first one was an OCZ with the indilinx controller, bought about 3-4 years ago. It was no longer recognized by the BIOS (on three different machines) and their help forums were no use, so I just threw it away.
But then about a year ago, I bought six corsair nova drives to play around with in a RAID0 configuration on a desktop. Things were incredibly fast for about four months until I started getting blue screens. So I dropped the array, tested each drive on other machines and found I/O errors and bad blocks using the latest version of HDTune on three of the six. One other one was extremely slow.
So four out of six has issues. I threw the four into a drawer and used the other two in laptops at home and work.
Sent the four back to the company for RMA last week, and they tell me that HD Tune does not support SSD and the drives are probably just fine. I explained that besides HDTune, I used them in three other computers to test individually, with fresh windows installations, then slowly increased drive usage (growing the size of a few test files) until the drives would fail. Each of the drives failed right around 20 gigs of usage. I'm assuming its because it tried to read or write from a bad block (or sector, whatever the terminology is for SSD) and windows crashed.
Even though I have sent the drives off, it sounds like Corsair will not be sending back replacements. If I receive these bad drives back, is there anything else I can test to prove they are unusable?
Experiences and testing SSDs
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by peptopro, Dec 31, 2012.