Is my SSD dead?

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I bought an 850 evo. The entire time I owned it pagefile was disabled and so were superfetching and prefetching. I also disabled ?turbo mode? It only took a couple days to figure out there was a memory leak on my computer. I used poolmon and found that the driver had a memory leak when using turbo mode so i disabled it from then on. This thing was already junk. One day I was deleteing a bunch of stuff (maybe over 100gb) copying some stuff (i think I was backing up gta 5 to use offline mods) and downloading from steam at 30mb/s when my computer shut off and the SSD was no longer detected in the bios. I've been hosting a game server recently and I wanted to put it on an SSD so I broke out the 850 evo. When I started my computer it detected new hardware and installed drivers for sata slot 3 and failed to install 850 evo drivers. I'm on an entirely new computer that has never had an ssd or samsumg product connected to it so it did detect the SSD. After it failed to install the computer never recognized it again even when I plugged it into a new sata slot on my motherboard. The bios also does not see it now. of course disk management, intel rapid storage technology and samsung magician all do not see it now.

Is my SSD permenatly dead?
Has this happen before or is it expected to happen? My HDD can do this all day but at slower speed.
I was never able to get close to the speeds advertised because the drivers had a memory leak in turbo mode so was this fraud, false advertising?
 
Solution
If the SSD isn't being seen in BIOS then the SSD is dead or you have a defective SATA data cable.

If it's dead and still within its 5 Year warranty then get Samsung to replace it.

mattbar

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Thanks for the solution. Having to resend this thing to samsung every other month is gonna suck