SSD Hybrid hard drive reliability

[p38arover]

I'm wondering how reliable they are. I installed one a few months back as my C: (boot) drive.

Now my computer can't reliably see it so I get boot failure.

Oh well, back to add to the hours of frustration working on the PC.

[Ferret]

Been using one for years as my C: drive. Intel SSD 520, never had any issues.

Must be your ability to buy faulty goods or something.

[p38arover]

Must be your ability to buy faulty goods or something.

Funny you should say that! :(

[Eevo]

take it out, wack it in another computer. see if its readable.

[p38arover]

take it out, wack it in another computer. see if its readable.

I don't have another desktop.

When the system can see it, it can't find bootmgr.

When I try system repair, it can't find Windows.

[Eevo]

I don't have another desktop.

When the system can see it, it can't find bootmgr.

When I try system repair, it can't find Windows.


find a friends pc.

cant find bootmgr or windows cause it cant find the drive.

go into the bios and see if its recogonised there

[p38arover]

find a friends pc.

I don't have any friends.

I'll build up another desktop as I have a few motherboards and another case.


cant find bootmgr or windows cause it cant find the drive.

Yes, I'd assumed that after a few reboots.


go into the bios and see if its recogonised there

Yes, that's what I did. It would be there sometimes, not others. I've changed the SATA cable, swapped the power connector from another drive, disconnected all other drives just in case the power supply is dying and can't handle the power requirements.

[Eevo]

It would be there sometimes, not others.

grab your data while you can

[p38arover]

Zackly!

I had been doing a weekly full backup with daily incrementals but the backup software stopped for some reason and I hadn't got it working again.

Most of my pix are on two other drives but there are docs on this one.

[p38arover]

Have it running at the moment so I am copying all my docs to another srive.

[p38arover]

I backed everything up to an external hard drive.


The external has decided it doesn't want to be visible to the operating system any more.

I've just come back from buying another external and am now backing up to it,