Hi,
A little over 1 month ago, I took my first step into SSD world, and ordered myself 2x Samsung 840 128GB (not PRO). Despite being a rookie in SSD, I've got plenty of experiment with HDDs, from age-old 50MB PATA drives, to 10K Raptors running in RAID0 arrays.
Originally, I wanted something that was tried and tested, and had my sights on the 830 due to great words and feedback on reliability - however when I decided to buy, they were all pulled from the market. I could still get one through other sources, however the price was now 30-40% higher than the 840!
The first thing I did when receiving them, was to upgrade their firmware via Magician, and set them up in RAID0.
Now, one month later, one of them has died, and so my RAID0 array is gone (I did take daily backups - so no important data lost).
What happens is that when I turn on my computer, it registers one of the drives as 0000000000SAMS (instead of a long, cryptic serial number), with only 1GB capacity. Iv'e tried different cables, different controller, all to no avail - the disk is dead. Samsung Magician doesn't even see the disk.
My question is: What now? On the one hand, I can just RMA the faulty drive, however, since they are both (most likely) from the same batch, I fear that this might happen to the other drive too.
Having Googled a bit around, it seems that this problem has happened elsewhere as well - Anandtech had several of them die when copying mass amounts of small-ish files (which is exactly what I was doing when it died).
Therefore, I think it might be better to just cancel the purchase, return both disks, and go for something that's known to have decent reliability (I've read enough horror stories about the new, cheaper memory type in the 840s to steer away - at least in my opinion!).
My webshop here in Spain offers the following other options for a similar price:
Crucial M4 128GB
Crucial V4 128GB
Kingston V300 120GB
SanDisk Extreme 120GB
Corsair Neutron 120GB
OCZ Vertex4 128GB
Corsair Force GX 128GB
Now, my biggest problem, is that whatever drive or brand I try to look up, I see horror stories everywhere.
I was therefore hoping that someone on this site could give me some advice.
Keep in mind that reliability is much more important to me than performance/speed (I'll run them in RAID0, so they'll be fast enough either way).
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to get all the details down on paper.
Am hoping for some advice!!
A little over 1 month ago, I took my first step into SSD world, and ordered myself 2x Samsung 840 128GB (not PRO). Despite being a rookie in SSD, I've got plenty of experiment with HDDs, from age-old 50MB PATA drives, to 10K Raptors running in RAID0 arrays.
Originally, I wanted something that was tried and tested, and had my sights on the 830 due to great words and feedback on reliability - however when I decided to buy, they were all pulled from the market. I could still get one through other sources, however the price was now 30-40% higher than the 840!
The first thing I did when receiving them, was to upgrade their firmware via Magician, and set them up in RAID0.
Now, one month later, one of them has died, and so my RAID0 array is gone (I did take daily backups - so no important data lost).
What happens is that when I turn on my computer, it registers one of the drives as 0000000000SAMS (instead of a long, cryptic serial number), with only 1GB capacity. Iv'e tried different cables, different controller, all to no avail - the disk is dead. Samsung Magician doesn't even see the disk.
My question is: What now? On the one hand, I can just RMA the faulty drive, however, since they are both (most likely) from the same batch, I fear that this might happen to the other drive too.
Having Googled a bit around, it seems that this problem has happened elsewhere as well - Anandtech had several of them die when copying mass amounts of small-ish files (which is exactly what I was doing when it died).
Therefore, I think it might be better to just cancel the purchase, return both disks, and go for something that's known to have decent reliability (I've read enough horror stories about the new, cheaper memory type in the 840s to steer away - at least in my opinion!).
My webshop here in Spain offers the following other options for a similar price:
Crucial M4 128GB
Crucial V4 128GB
Kingston V300 120GB
SanDisk Extreme 120GB
Corsair Neutron 120GB
OCZ Vertex4 128GB
Corsair Force GX 128GB
Now, my biggest problem, is that whatever drive or brand I try to look up, I see horror stories everywhere.
I was therefore hoping that someone on this site could give me some advice.
Keep in mind that reliability is much more important to me than performance/speed (I'll run them in RAID0, so they'll be fast enough either way).
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to get all the details down on paper.
Am hoping for some advice!!
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