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NaRu:
Yes my system did died not that long ago. The problem started when I notice my system running very slowly. Things took a long time to load and the things that were loaded started to crashed. So I restarted my pc but windows loaded fine. I did a virus scan not that found nothing. Then I notice that my skype become corrupted. I tried to uninstall it but it failed to do so. So then I tried to clean out the drive like my temp folder and other pointless data collecting folders. Couldnt delete anything. So what the hell is going on. So I had it with fixing so I decided to format and install windows again. So when I went to format it failed to do so. Nothing is working at all. Then I figure out what really happen. My system drive was failing. This is not a normal drive like a western digital. No no it was my Solid State Drive (SDD). For some reason I couldn't right to this drive anymore. Cant delete or change anything on it. This drive isnt cheap either ($390). It was a 120gig OCZ drive. So I called OCZ and gave them my information on what happen. They said that it was my fault the drive failed because of virus that go onto it. First thing I said was that its not because of a virus because no viruse can do that also that can be fix if I format the drive. It a hardware problem. So they connected to me to a different department. They wanted me to troubleshoot it. That fine maybe there is something I can do here that will work. They even said that the drive is dead (they call this trouble froze state). Since they had a name for it I guess this happens alot or enough tfor them to come up with a name. After all of this phone calls I went through they decided to send me a new one. Well its going to take like 3 weeks or so. Thank god that I had a spare 120 gig seagate drive I can use until then. Its very slow compare to my SSD. I miss it.

lapa321:
If possible, you could try posting here?

http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29

There are quite a few people that would be interested in that.

I finally saved up on buying an SSD and planning on getting one this month until i read your post.

How old is the drive? Maybe you used it as a torrent drive and that could have possibly killed it?

AceHigh:
SSD drive technology is expected to have childhood problems. What did you expect?

kureshii:
Out of curiosity, was it an OCZ Core V2 SSD?

lapa321:

--- Quote from: AceHigh on May 05, 2010, 04:06:06 AM ---SSD drive technology is expected to have childhood problems. What did you expect?

--- End quote ---

SSDs these days are being advertised to outlast your PC. Not being able to write is an indicator that a thumb drive has reached the end of it's life, the fact that he wore out his drive so fast is worrying.

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