Trying to solve this SSD issue

[demonix00]

The issue revolves around a KingSpec Q360 (360GB) SSD which appears to have stopped allowing anything to be written to it.

 

It started about a week ago when I noticed a notification (noticed is the obvious part there as I didn't get any auditory prompt regarding the notification) that there was errors on a drive which needed to be scanned and then stated that the system needed to be rebooted to fix said drive (at this point I was unaware which of the two drives was the one that had errors until the reboot started and the scan and repair completed in a little under a second and the drive letter pointing to the SSD) which completed and there appeared to be no further issues (even the SMART data was showing all was good even with the uncorrectable sector count in the mid teens which was putting me on edge about the drive even before all this happened).

 

That was until several hours ago when the notification returned and clicking the notification didn't bring up the security and maintenance control panel and going there manually and clicking the scan now button did nothing and when I decided to manually do a scan through the drives properties (when I looked at the logs, it was stating that there was no space available even though there was over 100GB available even after clearing out some space by uninstalling one of the two games that was installed on it) nothing happened during the reboot even when I used the chkdsk command in command prompt the required reboot gave the same results with no scan or repair being done (and crystaldiskinfo was still showing everything as good).

 

What made me think there was a more major issue with any data being lost on reboot was with one game I play which has a cloud based save along with a local save (which happens on each exit of the game) and nothing of what I'd done over the past 25 or so hours had been saved locally, also the history section in opera chromium didn't show any of the activity for that day (also, windows updates were constantly throwing errors of one kind or another).

 

Is the drive now junk (I was planing to take it out of use due to those uncorrectable sectors) or can it be brought back from the brink?

[Enderman]

What kind of crap SSD brand is that...

[demonix00]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

What kind of crap SSD brand is that...

One of those no name brands from China

[Founders]

Just now, Enderman said:

What kind of crap SSD brand is that...

AliExpress, OP back up your data if you still can and get a real SSD. 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, demonix00 said:

One of those no name brands from China

Why would you ever buy something like that?

Throw that thing away.

[demonix00]

23 hours ago, Ehmc130 said:

AliExpress, OP back up your data if you still can and get a real SSD. 

Also Amazon (which is where I got it from) and a majority of the data is already on another hard drive as that SSD was a replacement for another spinning platter drive and I had to copy the important stuff over because an issue with the windows installation on it making it impossible to clone, and the other stuff I sorted out before I took the PC in question out of service until I can sort out a replacement to get it back in service.

23 hours ago, Enderman said:

Why would you ever buy something like that?

Throw that thing away.

Because it about matched the capacity of the drive it was replacing and was at a half decent price.

[KhorCS]

Did u not watch the video linus made specifically for off brand SSDs? Funny thing is the SSD showcased in the video was the exact brand u are using

[Founders]

13 minutes ago, demonix00 said:

Because it about matched the capacity of the drive it was replacing and was at a half decent price.

I'm not trying to be insulting but now you know why it came at a discounted price. As I said, get your data off that drive if you still can and buy something from a reputable company. SSD's are very inexpensive at this point. Do you really want to risk the continuity of your data using substandard storage? 

[demonix00]

6 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

I'm not trying to be insulting but now you know why it came at a discounted price. As I said, get your data off that drive if you still can and buy something from a reputable company. SSD's are very inexpensive at this point. Do you really want to risk the continuity of your data using substandard storage? 

The drive was already scheduled for replacement after I noticed the amount of uncorrectable sectors that had appeared after just over a year of having the drive in use (after having a western digital HDD go from 0 to 500+ dead sectors in a little under a few hours for what seemed to be no reason I wasn't leaving anything to chance), but as the system it was in was only being used for viewing live streams it wasn't high in the priority list (it is also why the SSD that will be in my new (which is just a refurb HP workstation) gaming PC is made by Crucial).