Azraelsk Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Hi there, i had a F60 with Firmware 2.0, running for 11-12 months without any problems. The OS (Win 7 x64, Intel AHCI) was installed to that SSD, with all recommended optimizations. No defrag or such things, temporary files to ramdisk, etc. Today, i suddenly got a BSOD (0xF4) after the system was powered on for hours. Seconds before, the system got sluggish and freezed for a few moments, than BSOD. Before the BSOD the HDD-LED was permanently on for a minute. I tried to reboot the system, but i couldn't get past the login screen of windows - system froze, and BSOD again after a minute with HDD-LED on. I tried booting windows with F8 (don't know the english word for, "secured mode?"), but still got the BSOD. Then i booted from windows dvd (repair mode), opened up a console and tried a read-only chkdsk. After a few moments, chkdsk reported thousands of "could not read file" errors, the SSD was gone completely (couldn't access via drive letter E:, cmd reported "The system couldn't find the volume specified"). I resetted my computer, BIOS couldn't detect the SSD on SATA-Port 0 - it timed out. After powercycling the system the SSD was detected again, and i tried to save my data with ubuntu-livecd. I was able to successfully mount the drive, copied some data, but than the copy-process hanged and the SSD disappeared again. i got some errors in dmesg, which are attached to this posting, with a smartlog. Further, i tried to made a disk image with linux-tool dd, but this failed to with I/O error, log attached to the posting. Than, i prepared the drive for RMA and used shred to wipe my personal data. No errors happened for 3 runs. I think, the bad areas were mapped out by erasing the drive, but i don't trust the SSD anymore, for me it looks like possible failing hardware. As you can see, the SMART Value of Uncorrectable Errors increased a lot in the time between the shred-wipe and now. Should i RMA the drive ?corsair_f60_failing.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Interpreting SMART on Corsair SSDs. http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89316 -When was the last time you secure erase the SSD? If you have tried it and it didn't work then secure erase the SSD and Submit an RMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azraelsk Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 You don't want to tell me, that i am supposed to reinstall my OS every few months if i use a SSD, do you ? :bigeyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I recommend it...that's why people image the SSD so once they secure erase it they can re-image the SSD and so they don't have to re-install anything. But, I'd say it may be too late to try a secure erase. Submit an RMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superfila Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I have the exact same issue, fw 2.1B (same behaviour in linux/windows). My Win7 is no longer bootable (BSOD in IDE/AHCI) so I cant update the fw on hdd. I've managed to boot XP in 32bit IDE from another disk (BSOD in AHCI with diff intel rst drivers and f60 connected) and read this forum, still no success yet in using the HDD. I'll secure erase and keep you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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