Intel Bug Causes Failed SSDs Turn 600GB to 8MB

[Silverhazesurfer]

It turns out that the entire 320 series line of Intel SSDs has a tendancy to flake out and lose capacity.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-bug-ssd-320-series,13076.html

Intel has acknowledged this as well

http://communities.intel.com/message/131623#131623

I have yet to see a drive do this, but there is time. I have about 80 in the field thus far. As there is no fix for this yet, I will be seeking an alternate drive. Perhaps the new https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/ocz-vertex-3-240gb-solid-state-drive-t4032626.html will work.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Intel not having too good a time of it lately what with the early Sandy Bridge CPU's showing faults.

At a price between £680 & £860 (600Gb) though I don't think too many forum members here are going to be affected.

 

[Silverhazesurfer]

Take note, this is for all of the 320 series drives. They range from 40 to 600GB capacity. I have been using the 80GB drives. Not just the 600.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Erk Alors! Noted.

 

[Ian]

Eek... that could be a costly accident. I wonder if a firmware update could fix this, of if it's hardware side?

 

[Silverhazesurfer]

I have yet to see anything that suggests a firmware update for this issue to be available.

Intel has a firmware update for this drive, but the date on the update is Jan 2011 and Intel's forum statement is dated July 2011 with "We will provide an update when we have more information".

 

[Silverhazesurfer]

Flipping through some information with my design engineers, I find links that end up here.

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/do-ssd-drives-really-fail-lot-t4035508.html

While I don't believe that it references the Intel drives themselves, it does talk a bit about SSD's pros and cons, as well as care and possible fail points.

 

[Alf]

Woah, thats one hell of a 'bug'!

 

[V_R]

Hmm, my Crucial M225 has been perfectly fine since i built this machine. Which is now *works it out* nearly two years!? Already? Time flies....

https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/new-pc-build-now-finished-pics-t3911072.html

*pics were lost in the forum migration though.

 

[Silverhazesurfer]

I am taking a look at Crucial and OCZ now as a replacement to the 80GB 320 series. Not sure which way I want to go yet.