Intel Bug Causes Failed SSDs Turn 600GB to 8MB

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Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
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  • reprotected
    Why can't it be some kind of bug which allows users to unlock conveniently locked SSDs from a crappy 64GB to 300GB?
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  • f-gomes
    Oh no, Tom's. You didn't just quote TheRegister, did you?
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  • Belardo
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
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  • nearly nil
    Don't get too excited about this folks. The error is caused by extreme power cycling. Yes, it should be fixed to avoid this bug, but it sounds like normal use will not sink the boat. We are, essentially, early adopters of SSDs right now, so it's not too surprising that these bugs are coming up. That said, power cycling seems like a very routine Quality Control test, so why didn't Intel find this error prerelease?
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  • Netherscourge
    ...and the paid beta testing continues!
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  • lethal decipher
    I remember Western Digital spinners failing and showing up as 8MB failures...
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  • nearly nil
    lol related stories: Best SSDs for the money. Guess what gets big recommendation?
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  • hakkafusion
    i'm surprised with the amount of defective sandforce drives that just drop dead vs intel drives, the sandforce drives don't get a cover story but intel do
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  • wiyosaya
    Haha! I guess this is rather embarrassing to the behemoth, Intel. ;)
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  • After all,it's intel we are talking about,here, no surprises.
    A bug here and there once in a while.
    Cpu bugs,chipsets bugs,not news here.
    but i want my data back ,i use them as a backup drive on an external case.
    :-(
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