Any ideas for how to force this damn thing to work again? or would it make a better frisby for someone pooch.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 3:50 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was given a PNY brand SSD for a present about march this year. this > last Thursday. the damn thing stopped working. As in on strike, took a dump > on the bed. And Nothing I have done will get the F'n thing back to life. > > Symptoms are that it doesn't show up in BIOS, Windows thinks it's a > unformated drive, booting into Ubuntu to try to get the fucking to to just > god damn work gives a million errors about nodes, and F'sync. > And my hunch is the POS has died. > Questions! Does thatis happen to SSD's? they'll just stop working, > because, reasons? Family naturally wants do stuff with a warante not sure > it's worth it if the fucker just died. > I have tried unplugging cables, wiggling wobling and just about everything > to get it back to life. > On the off chance the bastard can be revived: is their software out their > to force the god damn thing to work? windows > https://ibb.co/TH2rvc0 <---this is what the fucking thing does now > > Expected behavior: a disk named Big Phun, with about 800gigs used as at > slot I > Actual Behavior: it ignored ElectroBoom and grabbed a bunch of wires, out > for the count. > > My hunch is it's as dark matter. > > Follow up Qs > Are SSDs just unreliable? > Are old-school SATA drives better as far as not flying apart when > hitting transwarp? > >
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