Hi first time poster!
I'm having what is becoming a serious issue with my almost 3 year old desktop build.
I've now had the third OCZ (operating system) drive fail on me and I'm looking to see if I've set something up wrong on my end or if I'm getting horrible luck on the parts. Very quickly, I have a SSD system disk running windows 7, a western digital HDD bulk storage drive and though i intended to overclock the system, I am still running it stock. I didn't cheap out on the mobo and all system components are approximately of the same quality.
First failure: originally purchased a OCZ vertex 2 120GB. Drive lasts about 14 months then fails to be detected one day with no signs (that I noticed) of the oncoming failure. OCZ replaces the drive with another Vertex 2 120GB model.
Second failure: The replacement drive above fails again in the exact same manner without warning after another 12 months. OCZ replaces this, now no longer produced, drive with an agility 2 240GB model.
Third failure: this second replacement drive fails after 3 months (today). about a month ago I got some random immediate system crashes into a BSOD and then a reboot. These became more frequent until finally the latest crash has lead to the drive being reported "inaccessible" by windows and not being detected anywhere by the BIOS.
From what I'm reading, the older generation drives were/are less reliable and then there's the ongoing discussions of how to properly maintain SSD's (i.e. minimizing writes, moving page files, etc.). In this regard I haven't gone in and tweaked anything other than keeping the bare minimum number of applications installed to the drive. More detailed things I've looked at is ensuring that the sata controller is set to AHCI mode prior to installing windows, that the mobo bios was up to date and that all chipset and mobo drivers were installed and updated in the correct order.
The last thing I can find that could be ruining things is that my system memory could be bad (as was suggested as a possible cause to this poster experiencing the same problem - though his drive hadn't actually failed: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=708718)
So yeah, any suggestions? Am I just getting really bad luck with these drives or am I accelerating their failure somehow? I'm about to give OCZ an earful but want to make sure I'm not goofing on my end.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Intel i52500k
Kingston HyperX T1 8GB
ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB
OCZ agility 2 240GB
WD 1TB HDD caviar Black
GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3
I'm having what is becoming a serious issue with my almost 3 year old desktop build.
I've now had the third OCZ (operating system) drive fail on me and I'm looking to see if I've set something up wrong on my end or if I'm getting horrible luck on the parts. Very quickly, I have a SSD system disk running windows 7, a western digital HDD bulk storage drive and though i intended to overclock the system, I am still running it stock. I didn't cheap out on the mobo and all system components are approximately of the same quality.
First failure: originally purchased a OCZ vertex 2 120GB. Drive lasts about 14 months then fails to be detected one day with no signs (that I noticed) of the oncoming failure. OCZ replaces the drive with another Vertex 2 120GB model.
Second failure: The replacement drive above fails again in the exact same manner without warning after another 12 months. OCZ replaces this, now no longer produced, drive with an agility 2 240GB model.
Third failure: this second replacement drive fails after 3 months (today). about a month ago I got some random immediate system crashes into a BSOD and then a reboot. These became more frequent until finally the latest crash has lead to the drive being reported "inaccessible" by windows and not being detected anywhere by the BIOS.
From what I'm reading, the older generation drives were/are less reliable and then there's the ongoing discussions of how to properly maintain SSD's (i.e. minimizing writes, moving page files, etc.). In this regard I haven't gone in and tweaked anything other than keeping the bare minimum number of applications installed to the drive. More detailed things I've looked at is ensuring that the sata controller is set to AHCI mode prior to installing windows, that the mobo bios was up to date and that all chipset and mobo drivers were installed and updated in the correct order.
The last thing I can find that could be ruining things is that my system memory could be bad (as was suggested as a possible cause to this poster experiencing the same problem - though his drive hadn't actually failed: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=708718)
So yeah, any suggestions? Am I just getting really bad luck with these drives or am I accelerating their failure somehow? I'm about to give OCZ an earful but want to make sure I'm not goofing on my end.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Intel i52500k
Kingston HyperX T1 8GB
ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB
OCZ agility 2 240GB
WD 1TB HDD caviar Black
GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3
