BSOD then SSD crashed and wiped all data

GetCrazeh

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I had left my computer on standby overnight as i do most nights and when i went to turn my computer on again in the morning i was immediately presented with a BSOD. i booted into the bios and i could see the SSD fine but when i booted into windows it would come up with the warning telling me to restore windows. I then put it into another computer to read it and i could not bee seen in explorer only device manager as an undefined partition. although there is no long term damage (that i know of) i was able to re-format it and re install my os. This is not the first time it has happened, the first time was back in November where my SSD had the same problem i fixed it up and it was shut off for 8 weeks. Now the same thing has happened again. I have contacted the retailer who sold it to me they said i would be able to return it but they would have to send it off to the manufacturer which would take up to a month. I cant really wait a month and i have no spare drives to use as a boot drive right now. I was wondering if anybody has any solutions to the problem or whether i should just return it when i can. Please don't suggest upgrading the SSD firmware as i have just done that with my new install of windows.

My specs are as follows:
i7 3820 @ 4.8Ghtz
Corsair H100i
Asrock Extreme 7 Motherboard
Corsair Vengance 2x4gb
Msi Gtx 770 gaming edition
Coolermaster Silent Pro Hybrid 850w
Corsair Vengance c70 Case
SanDisk extreme ssd 120gb
Western Digital Green 1tb
 
You can return it to the manufacturer yourself under the terms of the end-user warranty, rather than using the retailer as a middle-man. Contact the manufacturer, you need authorisation from them to return the drive for an exchange (it's called an RMA - Returned Merchandise Authorisation).
 

GetCrazeh

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I am aware of what an RMA is and the processes you have to go through to apply for one, the parts supplier wont act as a middleman they do their own testing and if they cant find any faults the then send it to the manufacturer for further testing. As i already said i cant really afford to send it off to the manufacturer right now so i was wondering if an issue like this would come about from outdated firmware (i just upgraded it today), something being
miss-configured in windows, or something complementary wrong with the hardware that will keep reoccurring until i replace it.