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Question

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB ssd keeps disappearing

by Jan 30, 2014 10:02PM PST

The drive had been working without any problems for a couple months and now it keeps disappearing on me. The only way to get it to reappear is to unplug it entirely from the motherboard and plug it back in. Even if I do get to reappear, it will only be visible in windows for a minute or two before its gone again. Here are my rig specs:

Type|Item
:----|:----
**CPU** | [AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor] |
**CPU Cooler** | [Corsair H110 94.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler]
**Motherboard** | [Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard]
**Memory** | [Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory]
**Storage** | [Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk]
**Storage** | [Crucial V4 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk]
**Storage** | [Mushkin Chronos 480GB 2.5" Solid State Disk]
**Storage** | [Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive]
**Video Card** | [EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card]
**Sound Card** | [Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z 70SB150200000 24-bit 192 KHz Sound Card]
**Wireless Network Adapter** | [TP-Link TL-WN851ND 802.11b/g/n PCI Wi-Fi Adapter]
**Power Supply** | [Raidmax 850W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply]
**Operating System** | [Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)]

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Answer
Sounds like it failed.
by Forum moderator Jan 30, 2014 10:07PM PST
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Drats.
by Mortique Jan 30, 2014 10:13PM PST

It is under warranty. Thankfully there is nothing critical on the drive, I use it for my Steam account. It will be annoying to sort out my Skyrim mods again, but I'll live.

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Have you
by samkh Jan 30, 2014 11:38PM PST

flashed the latest firmware onto it? There is a reason SSD makers keep updating their firmware. Also don't forget to turn off auto defrag to reduce wear.

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Good suggestion
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 30, 2014 11:45PM PST

But disconnect any other Samsung drive during that update. Just in case.

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I attempted to flash
by Mortique Jan 31, 2014 5:09AM PST

the latest firmware on it but it came up with an error and didn't finish. At that time the drive did not disappear from windows until several minutes later. If I can get the drive to stay active long enough I intend to attempt deleting the partition and then retrying the firmware updater.

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and since
by samkh Jan 31, 2014 12:21AM PST

you have a gazillion bytes of RAM (seems like that to me!) zero out paging files for all SSDs to also conserve life. Read up about TLC for SSDs and you'll be a happier camper.

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Didn't even think about that
by Mortique Jan 31, 2014 5:10AM PST

thanks for the tip. I'm sure it will help my system disk that is on the Crucial ssd.

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