SSD can not get formatted/cleaned

[kubikulek231]

Hi, 

 

friend of mine has an Apacer Panther 250GB (red one) SSD. 

He's got it for 5 months, he runs windows from it and during the last month his computer started to slow down. 

Last week I tried to do something with it via teamviewer, it started BSODing with a memory error. And whenever I tried turning off his "run after os' start" aplications. They were on after a reboot.

Same when I tried uninstalling programs etc. It just seems to revert back to it's previous state every reboot.

When I tried to fresh install windows on it, I could not format the disk and install process led into an error. 

I plugged it in my pc, tried diskpart, windows partition manager and some low level hdd formatting program but with no results. The process would complete but there will still be all of those partitions, files etc.

 

I heard SSDs get locked when the controller thinks an error occured so in order to prevent data loss, it sets the disk to read-only mode. Could this be it? It's almost brand new and It's got 2 years of warranty so it does not make sense to me. 

Do you please have any clue? Any tip appreciated. Thanks.

[Electronics Wizardy]

seems like a bad drive to me. Id rma it and use the replacement. Drive can fail randomly, so this is rare, but no unexpeced.

[kubikulek231]

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[kubikulek231]

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[kubikulek231]

no other opinion? 

[kubikulek231]

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