Revive solid state disk
I have a 3 year old OCZ Agility 2 solid state disk (32gb). It's having some strange problems.
Whether connected via USB, or SATA, after plugging it in, everything is detected okay and the drive appears and I can read and write to it for a short time, but after a minute or so it hangs and the drive stops responding.
S.M.A.R.T. checks out and shows everything is healthy. I deleted all the partitions and repartitioned in just in-case it was a logical problem with the storage. Doesn't help. Is this the dreaded "wearing" of SSDs happening to this device?
Is there any way to get some more use out of this thing? Any utilities to remap worn sectors or anything like that?
I don't care about the data, just want to try and keep using it for a little while longer as an external drive.
Whether connected via USB, or SATA, after plugging it in, everything is detected okay and the drive appears and I can read and write to it for a short time, but after a minute or so it hangs and the drive stops responding.
S.M.A.R.T. checks out and shows everything is healthy. I deleted all the partitions and repartitioned in just in-case it was a logical problem with the storage. Doesn't help. Is this the dreaded "wearing" of SSDs happening to this device?
Is there any way to get some more use out of this thing? Any utilities to remap worn sectors or anything like that?
I don't care about the data, just want to try and keep using it for a little while longer as an external drive.
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Out of interest, what did "my" tool diagnose?
it "diagnosed" that the disk was unusable. Seems to me that is a pretty good pass/fail test, is it not? :)
dlethe=Frosty555?
who is frosty555? If you think i have some online alias, i assure you i don't.
It's his question and I was interested if he has used the tool I linked so when you answered instead of him...
Frosty555 is the author of this topic.
gotcha, thought he was referring to the O/S itself as the diagnostic ;)
It will be new and much smaller.