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    Intel's new 320 SSDs bricked by glitch

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by 3Fees, Jul 19, 2011.

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    Yeah it's been news for a week or two I think, worth giving everyone a heads up for though!
     
    morfmedia, Jul 19, 2011
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    Intel better fix that 8mb glitch soon.
     
    Benchmade 42, Jul 19, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Thank goodness I got my 320 series 160 GB over a month ago. :D
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 19, 2011
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  5. Phil

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    I'm not following you. How do you mean?
     
    Phil, Jul 20, 2011
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    And here I am stuck having enjoyed enhanced sleep due to imagined reliability normally provided by Intel! Darn. Exactly how likely am I to get this bug. I power cycle my computer maybe 3 maybe 5 times a day. And by this I mean turn off, then on, or simply reboot. Thanks. This really bugs me, no pun intended!
     
    Cape Consultant, Jul 20, 2011
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    I believe the bug is mainly tied to sudden power loss (i.e. brown out), not simple boot/reboot which shuts the drive down properly. And it is also a fairly rare case at that it seems, I have a 320 at work, I'm not concerned. Intel will deal with it.
     
    madmattd, Jul 20, 2011
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  8. Greg

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    You know, a firmware bug that is quickly fixed (i.e. Intel) in infinitely better than just releasing bad hardware that has serious problems (i.e. OCZ, SandForce, etc) and suffer relatively high hardware failure rates.

    That being said this bug definitely sucks.
     
    Greg, Jul 20, 2011
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    I agree completely. I have faith Intel will fix it if there is indeed a problem here (and yes, there does appear to be but you never know with isolated issues).
     
    madmattd, Jul 20, 2011
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    not necessarily. If you read the Intel forum, many are using macbook so it can be triggered randomly. This seems to be an on going problem even back in x25m but the chances of it is being triggered was much lower.
     
    chimpanzee, Jul 20, 2011
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    I've seen five reports sofar in the last two weeks on Macrumors. Seems like it's not that rare.

    Strange though I have not seen any report on other laptops.
     
    Phil, Jul 21, 2011
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    May be Macs are activating different power modes at runtime much more frequently?


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    ramgen, Jul 21, 2011
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    even macbooks can power off suddenly..

    but it's not the first time intel+macbook is an issue. there are more reports with intel ssds on mac having issues than with intel ssds on windows systems. it's a) their hw proprietarity (but as it's all intel, that's rather unlikely), or b) something to do with the os.
     
    davepermen, Jul 21, 2011
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    Maybe Macbook Pros give out less power to SSDs. Several issues with SATA III SSDs seem to be related to not receiving enough power.
     
    Phil, Jul 21, 2011
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    Yea I tire of seeing all these issues with MAC and SSDs...

    The funny thing is that I know of many people who have built "hackinstoshes", ie a MAC OS on PC hardware, and say it works way better than MAC on Apple hardware...

    The rarity I referenced was for Windows systems. There may be something else at play with MAC, they have issues with basically every SSD out there when one is released...
     
    madmattd, Jul 21, 2011
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