![]() Has anyone else ever ran into any issue like this before? If so, is there a solution or is the drive pretty much a dud at this point? Always use wrist strap to prevent any ESD and always use caution about that kind of stuff. ![]() The SSD drive is 2 years old and only has had about 5 terabytes written to it (it came out of my previous laptop -but I purchased the SSD through Amazon). I have reached out to Crucial who, in the past several days (excluding the weekend of course) has had me do all kinds of things and asked for screenshots, etc… I think they are as confused about this as I am. ![]() I can only reproduce this issue on a computer where I use this SSD as the OS drive.Īt this point would I be reasonable to assume the SSD has some kind of issue? on a whim I installed the SSD in my wife’s computer (She’s a good sport), and it had the exact same problem. I checked the power options and disabled all the sleep and turning screen off settings. There was not much on the drive since I only use this laptop for basic things (my office PC is a custom build).Īfter doing all of this, I still got the same issue (wondering at this point how I was able to even get windows installed). Re-installed SSD, Backed it up, wiped it, and did clean Windows 10 install, updated drivers (bios already updated from last time). Computer worked fine without any issues and stayed powered on for 9 hours. Tested thermals with HW montior and other tools and did ram test with memcheck86 so it wasn’t a RAM issue.ĭisconnected speakers, DVD drive, and wireless card – still same issue.ĭug out the barely used HDD and installed fresh Windows 10, updated drivers and bios. After about 20min computer just shuts off. My wife’s laptop is the same exact model and so I swapped power cords, battery, and RAM and still had same issue. So in that respect, it is "unsafe" in that some of your personal data may not be overwritten as it would on a hard drive, and may be recovered (unless you deleted it earlier).One of my laptops started shutting completely off on its own unexpectedly after months of having no issues. This means some spots may miss being wiped. This feature is what defeats a traditional wipe program - the random 1s and 0s are spread out based on wear leveling needs. Though that limit is much higher than any normal home user needs to worry about (especially with each newer generation of SSDs), to ensure those limits are never reached, "wear leveling" occurs to spread the load through out the SSD so no one location is used more than another. You are just writing a bunch of random 1s and 0s in every storage location (each bit) to obliterate any residual magnetic charges representing the previous 1s and 0s that made up the previously saved data.Įvery storage location on a SSD memory device supports a limited number of writes. When you wipe a hard drive, you are not really "wiping" or erasing anything. 8 bits that don't represent data are useless to the bad guy. Each gate is a bit, you need 8 to make a byte. When you delete a file on a SSD, you "flip" each gate back to its " quiescent state" - it no longer represents any data. When the switch is open, they train cannot (0s). When the switch is closed, the train (electrical current) can go through it (1s). They are called gates because they are either open (0s) or closed (1s). ![]() That is different from a hard drive where the file is not actually deleted the space it once used is just marked as available so it can be over written (or recovered).Īlso, because hard drives work by orienting magnetic particles on the disk in such a way as to represent 1s and 0s, it is possible for residual magnetism to remain in those locations that leave the potential for data recovery. That is why using a wipe program on a SSD is "unnecessary". ![]() This means all you have to do is make sure you have deleted all your files and they will not be recoverable by a bad guy, no matter how hard he tries. As the How-To Geek noted, when you delete a file from an SSD, it is deleted and unrecoverable. It is that it is unnecessary and not very effective. Click to expand.It is not that wiping SSDs is "unsafe" as in "harmful". ![]()
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