Envy 14 SSD failure?

So I turned on my envy today and it said hard disk does not exist. I tried it 7 times and I got the same result. I did the hard disk test and it said does not exist. While I was on the phone with the Hp rep I tried it again and this time it booted up and eveythings "fine." I dunno what to think of this. It's the Hp 256gb ssd with f.23 BIOS. Any ideas?

 

I would open the back cover and look at the connections, maybe something is loose.

If it's properly connected and not working, check the drive on another computer (like a desktop and/or a USB / SATA adapter).
If its working there, it's a motherboard issue.

If its still not working on another computer, the drive may have died. I have heard of such things happening before.

Also SSDs wear out faster than regular HDDs when they are heavily used (repeatedly written, deleted, overwritten).
Thats one of the reason I didnt go for an SDD 'yet' . Too pricey for a shorter lifetime.

 

I don't have a usb/sata connector I've been meaning to get one for some time. It came with my new envy about 3 weeks ago. I've never filled it more then 50%. I ran all the disk tests and it passed all of them. I don't do any editing or read/write tasks. I've downloaded and deleted a couple ~7gb files so i donno if that might have messed up the SSD. My desktop icons were moved too after it finally booted. I'm just scared its going to happen again and I'll lose all my data.

 

Step 1: Run a backup, be it on an external drive or 3x64Gb SDXC SD cards but do it now and then at regular intervals
Step 2: Carry on as normal and don't worry. If it breaks then replace it.

The most important thing is that you have SOME kind of backup

 

Yea I have a backup on my 160gb external IDE hard drive. I just figured since there's no moving parts in an SSD it would be much less likely to fail and it seems like there's little to no warning before it does fail. I just have this thought that its going to stop working one day right before I need it the most.