Cinebench R20 broke my SSD

[Ebrahim Ali]

Yup thats waht the title says.

What happend was i loaded up R20 and started a run.PC black screened so I switched it off from the powersupply and let the power drain.When I turned it back on it took a full minute to boot to the BIOS.
I reset everything thinking it was instability due to my overclock .Rebooted and Im met with the windows screen that tells me that windows is broken and that i should repair.After unplugging all my drives except for the boot drive I get into the BIOS and now I cant see my boot disk SSD. I pull it out and test it with an external drive enclosure,nothing. Next I connected it to anothe PC via SATA and this PC REFUSES TO BOOT TOO. I unplug the SSD and now the PC boots.Well shit my 4 year old SSD is dead.

Did Cinebench kill it or was it just a coincidence?

 

[PancakesZA]

No it didn't.
You fail to mention the brand and model number of the ssd?
If a SSD just outright dies, it generally means the controller failed. This can happen to any drive at any time, especially older drives.

 

[Ebrahim Ali]

No it didn't.
You fail to mention the brand and model number of the ssd?
If a SSD just outright dies, it generally means the controller failed. This can happen to any drive at any time, especially older drives.

Its a Galax GamerL SSD 240GB. I bought it in 2015.
So just a coincidence then, cool.

 

[PancakesZA]

Its a Galax GamerL SSD 240GB. I bought it in 2015.
So just a coincidence then, cool.

Yip, my Corsair 480 XT(3 years old) died randomly. It was fine and then out of the blue it stopped copying files and then after a restart it was dead.
Crucial MX500 (5 months old) worked fine, Following day, booted the machine and to my surprise it was dead.

 

[Ebrahim Ali]

Yip, my Corsair 480 XT(3 years old) died randomly. It was fine and then out of the blue it stopped copying files and then after a restart it was dead.
Crucial MX500 (5 months old) worked fine, Following day, booted the machine and to my surprise it was dead.

Man the way my PC black screened in the middle of the R20 run and then to find out my SSD died, thats one strange coincidence but a coincidence nonetheless. Thanks for your help man, lastly are M.2 nvme drives worth it? Only my OS will live on this drive no games.

 

[JollyJamma]

Its a Galax GamerL SSD 240GB. I bought it in 2015.
So just a coincidence then, cool.

It was just the final straw that broke the camels back, not one app that wrecked it.

 

[Ebrahim Ali]

Have this in mind as a replacement

ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite M.2 - 256GB Product Name ADATA XPG SX6000 L...

ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite M.2 - 256GB Product Name ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite M.2 Product Number ASX6000LNP-256GT-C Capacity 256GB Form Factor M.2 2280 Interfac...

www.rebeltech.co.za

Thoughts?

 

[Ebrahim Ali]

my other drives have data corruption . Certain files cant be accessed. Theres no pattern,newly downloaded or ones that have been on the drive for ages have all been affected. FML

 

[Porra]

Have this in mind as a replacement

ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite M.2 - 256GB Product Name ADATA XPG SX6000 L...

ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite M.2 - 256GB Product Name ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite M.2 Product Number ASX6000LNP-256GT-C Capacity 256GB Form Factor M.2 2280 Interfac...

www.rebeltech.co.za

Thoughts?

My opinion, you get what you pay for. I would spend an extra R500 and try get a Samsung 960 or WD SN750

 

[nagapie]

my other drives have data corruption . Certain files cant be accessed. Theres no pattern,newly downloaded or ones that have been on the drive for ages have all been affected. FML

Back up's?

 

[toy1985]

my other drives have data corruption . Certain files cant be accessed. Theres no pattern,newly downloaded or ones that have been on the drive for ages have all been affected. FML

Virus?


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[Ebrahim Ali]

Back up's?

Nope it turned out to be a faulty usb cable from my enclosure. Popped the drive in a PC with SATA and it was fine. My SSD is still dead though.

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

This is what happens when you don't spring the extra for the Evo.

Wasn't Rebeltech running a special on WD SSDs just now?

 

[Ebrahim Ali]

This is what happens when you don't spring the extra for the Evo.

Wasn't Rebeltech running a special on WD SSDs just now?

Is the WD750 a good buy? Im not clued up on SSD's

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Is the WD750 a good buy? Im not clued up on SSD's

I would think so but that's based on WD's HDD rep which is stellar, not sure it carries over to SSDs though. I only mentioned it because @Porra mentioned a WD in post #9.

All I know about SSDs is you go Samsung if you care about it lasting you for a looong time.

 

[Valdo8]

Just generally avoid anything with a Phison S11 controller(Known for random failures, had a 120GB Kingston A400 with a S11 fail in my laptop out of the blue) and you should be fine.
I use this tier list.

https://imgur.com/a/sYmbnMr

 

[Ebrahim Ali]

I read anand tech review on the WD750. It seems good. Ordered it just now.