Dead Corsair SSD

GetFrodoGetFrodo Posts: 1,805
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My Corsair Force 120 drive died today. I hard powered off the laptop yesterday, and today it is no more. It was purchased August 2011 - anyone know offhand what warranty period Corsair offered at the time?

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  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    GetFrodo wrote: »
    My Corsair Force 120 drive died today. I hard powered off the laptop yesterday, and today it is no more. It was purchased August 2011 - anyone know offhand what warranty period Corsair offered at the time?

    I think it was three years if I remember rightly.
    Do the bios reconise the drive?
  • StigStig Posts: 12,446
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    GetFrodo wrote: »
    My Corsair Force 120 drive died today. I hard powered off the laptop yesterday, and today it is no more. It was purchased August 2011 - anyone know offhand what warranty period Corsair offered at the time?

    5 seconds of Googling says 3 years.

    http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/cssd-f120gb2-brkt

    http://www.thinkcomputers.org/corsair-force-series-f120-120gb-solid-state-drive-review/
  • GetFrodoGetFrodo Posts: 1,805
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    Thanks all. No, the disk isn't recognised anywhere, by Windows repair or in my other computer via a caddy. Defo Dodo territory.

    Am just going to order the Samsung 850 EVO 256 as replacement, which offers 5 years / 75 TB written (I assume so, their website actually says 75 Total Bytes Written which is a bit on the low side for my needs.... :D). Actually, does any

    But for now I am back to spinning platters, plodding through the updates for a 2012 version of Windows :cry::cry::cry:
  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    GetFrodo wrote: »
    Thanks all. No, the disk isn't recognised anywhere, by Windows repair or in my other computer via a caddy. Defo Dodo territory.

    Am just going to order the Samsung 850 EVO 256 as replacement, which offers 5 years / 75 TB written (I assume so, their website actually says 75 Total Bytes Written which is a bit on the low side for my needs.... :D). Actually, does any

    But for now I am back to spinning platters, plodding through the updates for a 2012 version of Windows :cry::cry::cry:

    My corsair force 3 is getting on now, over fours years and still going strong.
    I am thinking of going for the higher end corsair at some point.

    spinning platters, yes, I do not envy you :)
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    noise747 wrote: »
    My corsair force 3 is getting on now, over fours years and still going strong.
    I am thinking of going for the higher end corsair at some point.

    spinning platters, yes, I do not envy you :)

    I think anyone using an SSD would think the same. HDDs are the equivalent to dial-up internet.
  • neo_walesneo_wales Posts: 13,625
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    zx50 wrote: »
    I think anyone using an SSD would think the same. HDDs are the equivalent to dial-up internet.

    Utter nonsense.
  • GetFrodoGetFrodo Posts: 1,805
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    I agree with xk50...going back to spinning disks is very painful :-(
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    neo_wales wrote: »
    Utter nonsense.

    I didn't mean literally, but just meant that a HDD is the dial-up of the storage world. SSDs would be the broadband of the storage world.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    GetFrodo wrote: »
    I agree with xk50...going back to spinning disks is very painful :-(

    I won't be going back to them for an operating system if I can help it.
  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    zx50 wrote: »
    I think anyone using an SSD would think the same. HDDs are the equivalent to dial-up internet.

    They are not that bad, I still use spinny drives for storage and they still do the job.
    I want a larger SSD drive so I can put video on when I am working on them,
  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    zx50 wrote: »
    I didn't mean literally, but just meant that a HDD is the dial-up of the storage world.

    I am going to use dial up at the end of the week, got to sort a computer out which is still on dial up internet, should be fun.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    noise747 wrote: »
    They are not that bad, I still use spinny drives for storage and they still do the job.
    I want a larger SSD drive so I can put video on when I am working on them,

    Yes, for storage. I'm talking about when opening programs.
  • neo_walesneo_wales Posts: 13,625
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    zx50 wrote: »
    I won't be going back to them for an operating system if I can help it.

    I've half a gig SSD as boot disk and 8TB of spinnies for data storage and my machine runs very fast and smooth.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    neo_wales wrote: »
    I've half a gig SSD as boot disk and 8TB of spinnies for data storage and my machine runs very fast and smooth.

    I was talking about for an operating system.
  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    zx50 wrote: »
    Yes, for storage. I'm talking about when opening programs.

    I have a fair bit of software on a 500GB hybrid spinny drive and they open pretty quickly, not as fast as if they was on the SSD, but fast enough.
    My steam games, the few I have is on the spinny drive, so is MS office. sony Vegas, photoshop and after effects are on the SSD

    I also have a 2TB drive for storage.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    noise747 wrote: »
    I have a fair bit of software on a 500GB hybrid spinny drive and they open pretty quickly, not as fast as if they was on the SSD, but fast enough.
    My steam games, the few I have is on the spinny drive, so is MS office. sony Vegas, photoshop and after effects are on the SSD

    I also have a 2TB drive for storage.

    How many average computer users have a hybrid HDD though? I'm talking about the HDD that you'll find in averagely priced computers/laptops.
  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    zx50 wrote: »
    How many average computer users have a hybrid HDD though? I'm talking about the HDD that you'll find in averagely priced computers/laptops.

    I do not think the hybrid drive makes a lot of difference as a second drive. I have used another computer with the same sort of software I have got and it runs using a 4 year old seagate 1TB drive and it is usable, boot up takes longer, but not a huge amount, Vegas loads in pretty quick. again not as fast as the SDD, but not that much slower and the computer itself is a lesser spec than mine.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    noise747 wrote: »
    I do not think the hybrid drive makes a lot of difference as a second drive. I have used another computer with the same sort of software I have got and it runs using a 4 year old seagate 1TB drive and it is usable, boot up takes longer, but not a huge amount, Vegas loads in pretty quick. again not as fast as the SDD, but not that much slower and the computer itself is a lesser spec than mine.

    Do you defragment it very much? The HDD I had in the last desktop I built wasn't that fast.
  • noise747noise747 Posts: 30,692
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    zx50 wrote: »
    Do you defragment it very much? The HDD I had in the last desktop I built wasn't that fast.

    i don't defrag mine as windows 8 is suppose to do that. My mate have to defrag his now and again as he have Windows XP still.

    I do not defrag my SSD.
  • SexbombSexbomb Posts: 20,005
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    My crucial M4 is just over 3 years old with 15% health lost, the performance of it could be better as it hangs sometimes when using the OS especially xp, example i click the start menu then programs it will hang for about 10secs before i can access it again and then ok.

    I'm wondering whether to replace it even though it still works good otherwise. the firmware is currently 070H with no further update since 2013.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    noise747 wrote: »
    i don't defrag mine as windows 8 is suppose to do that. My mate have to defrag his now and again as he have Windows XP still.

    I do not defrag my SSD.

    No, that's supposed to quickly shorten the lifespan of it.
  • zx50zx50 Posts: 91,227
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    Sexbomb wrote: »
    My crucial M4 is just over 3 years old with 15% health lost, the performance of it could be better as it hangs sometimes when using the OS especially xp, example i click the start menu then programs it will hang for about 10secs before i can access it again and then ok.

    I'm wondering whether to replace it even though it still works good otherwise. the firmware is currently 070H with no further update since 2013.

    XP doesn't have trim. Are you using any software that trims it?
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