2010-05-06, 14:05
My brand new and first ever SSD disk lasted 3 days...
Monday I installed it on my new HTPC and this morning it would not boot.
BIOS reports "SMART supported but command failed". Disabled SMART but still Ubuntu would not boot. I booted from a usb stick, the partitions are there, disk "is healthy" according to Disk utility but I cannot mount them. I/O errors all the time. GParted manages to delete the partitions but then magically they appear again! I tried to dd the whole disk and again I get I/O errors. The partitions are there as ghosts, just impossible to read them or delete them.
The drive is a Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB (SNV125-S2/30GB).
I have no idea what happened. Until yesterday it worked fine and fast. I had no ata errors in syslog and the pc was shutdown normally.
I am going to replace it but I am not sure I want to risk it again. I am thinking to buy a normal 2.5'' small sata drive and forget about SSD altogether for now.
Have you had any SSD failures?
Monday I installed it on my new HTPC and this morning it would not boot.
BIOS reports "SMART supported but command failed". Disabled SMART but still Ubuntu would not boot. I booted from a usb stick, the partitions are there, disk "is healthy" according to Disk utility but I cannot mount them. I/O errors all the time. GParted manages to delete the partitions but then magically they appear again! I tried to dd the whole disk and again I get I/O errors. The partitions are there as ghosts, just impossible to read them or delete them.
The drive is a Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB (SNV125-S2/30GB).
I have no idea what happened. Until yesterday it worked fine and fast. I had no ata errors in syslog and the pc was shutdown normally.
I am going to replace it but I am not sure I want to risk it again. I am thinking to buy a normal 2.5'' small sata drive and forget about SSD altogether for now.
Have you had any SSD failures?