There are known / reported issues with Crucial SSD, made even worse
when Crucial tried to dump a large number of these units on the
markets for very attractive too good to be true prices. It forced us
to rebuild a DSTAR site twice, before we uncovered the problem /
deception.
Moved to a new drive and all sorted.
CRUCIAL SSD = CRAP
Keith
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Subject: [Flexradio] Heads Up re SSD Drive Issue
From: TM <tm.st...@verizon.net>
To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
Date: Friday, 03/01/2014 6:42 PM
Just thought I would let the list know about a recent problem I had
with the
Crucial (Micron) 128 GB SSD on my machine. The machine is about 2
years old
(HP i7-2600, 3.4 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Win 7 64 Pro) and has been very solid
until
a few weeks ago. Started getting lots of weird freezes that
progressively
became worse until the box would only run for about 30 minutes until
crashing into a BSOD. Crash was so bad that windows did not even do a
dump
to help in debugging. Really had me stumped trying to find cause.
Long story short - Crucial had a bug in the SSD firmware that resulted
in
the drive becoming unstable after reaching 5184 hours of total use.
The
problem is well documented on their website, and their technical
support
folks are some of the very best I have found. Downloaded the new
firmware
which totally fixed the issue.
This really has nothing to do with Flex, but there seem to be several
on the
list with SSDs. Just a word to the wise. Hope it may save you some
time
fixing if you have similar problem.
73, Tom
K1FR
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