Yesterday My computer shut off and would not recognize the HDD. I went thru all the troubleshooting steps and determined that the SSD had died. Went to best buy, bought another one, plugged it in and restored from my image. Luckily i keep current complete images of the system. It worked perfect and i was up and running in about an hour.
Here are some things that i learned due to this happening.
1) SanDisk appears to be a decent company for warranty. My drive is less than a year old and they appear to be happy to replace it. They issued an RMA and sent me a shipping label. I did not receive my drive yet but feel comfortable that i will.
2)SSDs are a bit more sensitive than regular HDD's in some areas. One of the major killers are voltage sags or power outages. If you have a SSD computer i would highly recommend putting it on a UPS. Im not certain if this killed mine but it is possible.
One afternoon my wife moved the computer desk and all the stuff that went with it. After this failure I started troubleshooting and found that the only thing that my UPS was protecting was a desk lamp and the wireless mouse. Phew! at least those are safe. The rest of the equipment was plugged into a standard power strip which was plugged directly into the wall.
Just thought i would share and pass along some things i learned about SSD's
Here are some things that i learned due to this happening.
1) SanDisk appears to be a decent company for warranty. My drive is less than a year old and they appear to be happy to replace it. They issued an RMA and sent me a shipping label. I did not receive my drive yet but feel comfortable that i will.
2)SSDs are a bit more sensitive than regular HDD's in some areas. One of the major killers are voltage sags or power outages. If you have a SSD computer i would highly recommend putting it on a UPS. Im not certain if this killed mine but it is possible.
One afternoon my wife moved the computer desk and all the stuff that went with it. After this failure I started troubleshooting and found that the only thing that my UPS was protecting was a desk lamp and the wireless mouse. Phew! at least those are safe. The rest of the equipment was plugged into a standard power strip which was plugged directly into the wall.
Just thought i would share and pass along some things i learned about SSD's