Hey guys. Bought PNY XLR8 Pro 120 in 2013. In hindsight, over the last two months it's been slowing down exponentially on write, but staying normal on reads. Last 3 weeks have been frustrating. This past week I started to panic as it was slowing fast and the last day I decided to replace it I couldn't even get Acronis to install in time to mirror it to the new one. Ended up using clonezilla created on a different PC, luckily worked first try perfectly.
New hard drive works perfectly with no settings altered, using the same SATA cable and port the old one used.
I had tried everything I could with settings (optimize, cleaned up 50 GB free space, checked Trim etc) and it just kept getting worse showing no improvement.
Am I right in thinking this is a mechanical failure? It went downhill surprisingly fast the last day.
Now it's sitting here. I performed a "clean" on it and created a new partition, but it still didn't want to write files as an extra disk. Transfers some quickly at like 200 MB/s then stops about 1 second in and drops to zero. Resource monitor shows it's still writing the first files. I was thinking a blown cap or storage chip on-board.
TL;DR: Is it useless? Should I microwave it and toss it? (I kind of want to microwave it)
New hard drive works perfectly with no settings altered, using the same SATA cable and port the old one used.
I had tried everything I could with settings (optimize, cleaned up 50 GB free space, checked Trim etc) and it just kept getting worse showing no improvement.
Am I right in thinking this is a mechanical failure? It went downhill surprisingly fast the last day.
Now it's sitting here. I performed a "clean" on it and created a new partition, but it still didn't want to write files as an extra disk. Transfers some quickly at like 200 MB/s then stops about 1 second in and drops to zero. Resource monitor shows it's still writing the first files. I was thinking a blown cap or storage chip on-board.
TL;DR: Is it useless? Should I microwave it and toss it? (I kind of want to microwave it)
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