PC crashed after overclock, Windows wants to chkdsk my SSD and it has 3 realocated blocks

laurentiucristian

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I overclocked my CPU, everything was fine. I don't want to get into details because this is about storage, not OCing, but the thing is that my PC crashed after it booted into Windows. I reverted the settings, but instead of usual Windows start up, it begun to check my drive, I skipped it because I don't have time for that right now. Now the thing, I checked the SMART parameters and I noticed that "Retired block count" is now 3. I'm not sure if was 0 before the crash because I didn't checked it for one year or so.

My question: this happened to other people? And if the number increases, warranty can cover it?

PS: I only wrote 10TB on it, I'm pretty sure nowadays SSD can do more than that. It's a 128 GB Adata SP900.
 
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That's probably because of interrupted write on SSD, so called soft sector errors. A HDD would relocate it but with SSD it's retired, ie. marked not to be used any more. Result is same though. When it happens with HDD a program like HDD Regenerator could fix that but I'm not aware of anything like that for SSDs.
You can check about warranty at manufacturers site, each one has different policy.
When OCing, make sure that PCIe stays at 100 MHz because disk controllers are usually tied with that and can produce errors if higher.
That's probably because of interrupted write on SSD, so called soft sector errors. A HDD would relocate it but with SSD it's retired, ie. marked not to be used any more. Result is same though. When it happens with HDD a program like HDD Regenerator could fix that but I'm not aware of anything like that for SSDs.
You can check about warranty at manufacturers site, each one has different policy.
When OCing, make sure that PCIe stays at 100 MHz because disk controllers are usually tied with that and can produce errors if higher.
 
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