Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

From	David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc
Date	2016-03-17 22:30 +0100
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On 03/17/2016 01:25 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> I had a problem with a power supply that kept cutting out after about
> 40 minutes or so.
>
> I was running debian stretch reasonably OK from a PNY optima ssd on
> an FX 8350 cpu running on a sabertooth fx 990 2.0 board with a engt
> 430 graphics card.
>
> The original psu was a Zalman zm 1250 which I replaced with a smaller
> psu that runs OK.
>
> The SSD is no longer recognised by the bios.
>
> There is some voodoo on the web about using power cycles and firmware
> to resurrect the ssd drives.
>
> Does this work in practice or should I get a replacement ssd?

On 03/17/2016 01:59 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> The incantation is here:
>
> forum.crucial.com/t5/tkb/articleprintpage/tkb-id/ssd@tkb/article-id/32
>
>and there are discussions like this one as well:
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/169124-the-mysteriously-disappearing-drive-are-power-outages-killing-your-ssds
 >
> I will try this a bit and if it doesn't work then I will accept that
> all my cheap and nasty pen drives work fine and are bootable but the
> fancy new SSD is dead.......
>
> I will stick with hard drives.

The problem could be the port, the cable, and/or the SSD.  You need 
another set of known good components to isolate the problem.  Hopefully, 
you don't have a failure mode that smokes whatever the component is 
connected to...

Is your SSD under warranty?  If so, I'd suggest contacting PNY technical 
support.  If not, try whatever voodoo you want.

I had a PNY video card years ago with a "Lifetime Warranty".  When it 
died (~2 years?), I contacted PNY and expected them to replace the card. 
  They replied that their definition of "Lifetime" was the time that the 
product was in production.  As that card was out of production, there 
was no warranty.  I have never bought or recommended PNY since.

I've owned and run a few Intel 520 Series SSD's for the past several 
years.  The SMART parameters indicate the drives are old, but the Intel 
SSD toolbox says the drives have virtually no wear.  I've never had a 
problem with them.

I've recently put some Samsung SSD's into service.  We'll see how they 
hold up.

David

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ssd firmware and power cycles etc Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-17 21:30 +0100
  Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il> - 2016-03-17 21:50 +0100
    Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> - 2016-03-17 22:00 +0100
      Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il> - 2016-03-17 22:30 +0100
      Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-19 14:50 +0100
  Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-17 22:30 +0100

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