Corsair Force GS 128GB dead in less than a month

[pol77]

Hello everyone.

 

I purchased a Corsair Force GS 128 GB on 7/3/2014 and started using it as a system disk. I was unimpressed at the rate its performance degraded when it was halfway filled with data and after a few rounds of crystaldiskmark were completed.

 

Nevertheless, I let it be.

 

Today, 31/3/2014, 3 1/2 weeks of light use later, the disk died on me. Suddenly, my system froze and after a while I got a blue screen. The SSD was never recognized in the BIOS again, neither in the same nor in another system.

 

I opened an RMA case (ticket 6447657) and saw that I have to pay for shipping to corsair and I must also pay for tracking and insurance because I will be responsible if anything happens on the way!

 

To top it all, I am under the weather, with pneumonia at home and cannot go to the post office, so I would have to ask a courier service to pick the ssd up at my place which will bring the postage cost to more than 20 euro (at least).

 

What is quite a lot compared to the 80 euro it cost me to purchase the ssd in the first place.

 

I remember when I got my Corsair AX 1200 with coil whine, when corsair picked it up at their expense from my place and offered advanced rma without even asking me for a credit card at the time AND gave me a USB stick for my trouble.

 

Comparing the two cases, I would have to say that things seem to be going downhill.

 

I would love to hear what corsair has to say about this, before I decide what to do.

 

Thanks!

[pol77]

After looking around in the forum a bit, I see that this particular SSD model has had many failures and complaints!

 

I wish I had purchased another model such as the neutron GTX...

[GrimReaper100]

I have just had to send the Second 128 GB Drive back to corsair after about 1-2 weeks use each. Don't tell me these drives are fit to sell to the public!...

 

And Yes, I agree that we should not have to pay for the return postage..