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Kaboobi posted:My year-ish old Kingston 64GB SSD poo poo itself and went into readonly mode If it's still under warranty it should be pretty painless; I used their Web RMA form when my old SSDNow 40GB started flaking out and had a check from them for the purchase price a few days after they received it. dud root posted:I've got a 100Mb system reserved partition after a fresh Win 7 install When I used the Intel cloning tool to migrate a 40GB 320 Series to an 80GB the System Reserved Partition ended up being 197MB 
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Alereon posted:SSDs (especially OCZ) seem to fail without any informative errors, so diagnostics seem hard right now. I'd suggest checking for a firmware update and doing a secure erase on the drive and seeing if you have any problems after that. When my SSDNow 40GB started failing the transfer rates (especially writes) started going all over the place instead of remaining at a constant speed. Not noticeable during general use but it could definitely be seen during benchmarks. Then after about a month it started dropping out of the BIOS and all that jazz. This is a seemingly atypical failure mode but the info might be of use to somebody. I would suggest running CrystalDiskMark or some other benchmark and save the results as soon as you get a new drive, then you have something to compare to if it acts up later. If the speeds don't normalize after a firmware update and secure erase I would start getting concerned. DethMarine21 fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jan 16, 2012 |
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LorneReams posted:I've had no problems living with a 40GB system drive. Even with a couple of game, I'm usually 3/4 full. Granted I'm insane about upkeep and moving things to other drives, but it's been worth that so far. 40GB was fine for me too, until Battlefield 3 came out and it wouldn't fit. 80GB is probably the lowest recommendable size right now. Also the Intel 320 Series 80GB is on sale right now for $69.99 after MIR.
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Otto Skorzeny posted:Is there an easy way to check what firmware I'm running? CrystalDiskInfo should tell you.
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http://www.mushkingames.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=18391 This might shed some light on it.
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I think you need to change a Windows registry setting if you installed in IDE mode and want to switch to AHCI, otherwise it just bluescreens like you saw. e; see if this helps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 DethMarine21 fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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Lblitzer posted:These are my benchmarks, drive in question is Intel X25-V 40gb: Those write speeds should be pinned at ~41 MB/s across the board; definitely do that registry change and switch to AHCI.
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