Dead SSD?

[Zarous]

I fear that my ssd is dead i have pluged everything in and tried switching powercable and sata. It dosen't show up in bios or disk manager 

any advice to find out if it's dead or troubleshooting

[Electronics Wizardy]

Does it work in a different system? Dead ssd is defiantly a possibility

[Zarous]

just plugged it into my laptop and it dosent show up, it do get hot when i plug it in on both systems

[Yvette222]

Most probably this drive is dead. If you want to recover data, send it to professional data recovery service.

[seagate_surfer]

Hello Zarous, 

 

The drive getting hot can be the result of the heat produced by the other components of the motherboard and not necessarily and indicator that the drive is working, chances are as it was stated already that the drive is dead. Feel free to contact us for data recovery services:

• Seagate US

[Zarous]

I dont have any stuff in it just windows but still sucks to buy a new one.

 

The heating part. I had my drive outside the pc so it shoundt be the other parts

[seagate_surfer]

I see what you are saying, if you want to stay with SSDs just take into consideration that they can only write a finite amount of data before you can't write anymore. That happens mainly because of the way the store data (cells and blocks entirely) as opposed to regular HDD (Just write in sectors). Don't get me wrong, you shouldn’t fear SSDs are less reliable and eventhough there are reason to stick with HDDs over SSDs, including price and capacity, holding back because you’re afraid an SSD is not as reliable as an HDD shouldn’t be a concern. SSDs just require a different type of treatment so the lower you could write on them the better, move the folders you store more frequently data to a hard drive based on what we can call "load cycles". HDDs are usually bigger and the bigger the hard drive the more will take you to complete one load cycle, so we can say that: It is not same to fill out completely a drive of 256GB than one drive of 1TB, even if they had the same amount of load-cycles limit, of course it will take more time to the bigger drive to complete its cycles quota than the time it takes to the smaller devices.

[KingCobra484]

Have you tried power cycling it? 

[Zarous]

Yes dosent seem to work

[PrinnyExplodes]

There is another method of power cycling. Some users have tried the traditional "30 mins power and no data cable. Unplug. Plug power in for another 30 mins" with no success. But depending on which version of SSD you have, this has also worked with great success with older ssds (mostly owners of crucial ssds).

 

1. Plug in the drive's SATA power cable *only* (not the data cable)

 

2. Boot the PC and let it sit for around 30 minutes.

 

3. With the PC power still on, plug in the SATA data cable.  Do not disconnect the power.

 

4. Press the PC's reset switch.

 

No one knows the reason why this works and I have copy and pasted this off the crucial forums from a post from 2013 on alternative ways to power cycle. I have tried the "normal" way of power cycling on my mx300 with no success and then came across this and it worked beautifully. So it is worth a shot

[seagate_surfer]

Thanks for sharing! 30 minutes connected to power cable, then connect the SATA data cable and then hit the reset the button in the machine is something you don't do quite often, I am sure we all would like to hear what's the final outcome for this.