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Re: SSD Failure?

From "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
Newsgroups uk.comp.homebuilt
Subject Re: SSD Failure?
Date 2026-08-06 14:36 +0000
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On 06/08/2026 in message <11522om$3rtq1$2@dont-email.me> Daniel James wrote:

>On 06/08/2026 10:34, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>I set up a 4 TB Crucial SSD using Mini Tool Partition Wizard this  
>>morning. I've had the SSD for a while and I plugged it in via an Orico  
>>cradle, USB3.
>>
>>Mini Tool was slow to start and then stuck at 97% for a while before it  
>>said it was finished.
>>
>>Windows Tools Scanner (is it actually FDISK?) said no problems, I told  it 
>>to scan anyway, still no problems.
>>
>>AS SSD Benchmark indicated 124 Mb/s read, 34 Mb/s write. I tried the  
>>benchmark on a 2 TB SSD in the same cradle which returned close to 500  
>>Mb/s for each.
>>
>>I planned to use the 4 TB as a backup drive but I think I need to take  
>>hammer to it.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>
>Have you looked at the SMART data?
>
>I wouldn't be too quick to rule out a problem with the USB cradle (or even 
>a problem caused by poor seating of the drive within the cradle).
>
>Try it with a proper SATA connection.

I used the same USB cradle for both tests deliberately to test it.

-- 
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Every day is a good day for chicken, unless you're a chicken.

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SSD Failure? "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-06 09:34 +0000
  Re: SSD Failure? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-08-06 14:38 +0100
    Re: SSD Failure? "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-06 14:36 +0000
      Re: SSD Failure? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-08-06 17:18 +0100
        Re: SSD Failure? SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2026-08-07 09:15 +0100
          Re: SSD Failure? Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-08-07 09:55 +0100
          Re: SSD Failure? Ian <${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com> - 2026-08-07 09:24 +0000
            Re: SSD Failure? SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2026-08-07 10:38 +0100
        Re: SSD Failure? "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-07 14:55 +0000
  Re: SSD Failure? Raj Kundra <raj@kundracomputers.co.uk> - 2026-08-06 18:13 +0100
  Re: SSD Failure? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-08-06 20:27 +0200
    Re: SSD Failure? "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-08-06 18:38 +0000

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