Posted: 2/22/2026 1:17:47 AM EDT
Is a Samsung SSD.  I bought this about 5 years ago, and now it's apparently dead. BIOS won't recognize there's a drive attached (it was my boot drive.) I pulled it and tried using an adapter to connect to my laptop and it doesn't see anything. I'm assuming the drive is toast? I thought SSDs were more reliable but I've had spinning discs go twice this lifespan. 
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It might be dead but pull up disk management and make sure it's not just listed as an unformatted drive. You may need to grab and drag down the bottom right corner to expand the window to see it if it's recognized. If it is you can create a partition and use it. I've had a couple of drives I couldn't get to pull up or be recognized until they got a little help with disk management. |
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Originally Posted By gtsteve03: I bought this about 5 years ago, and now it's apparently dead. BIOS won't recognize there's a drive attached (it was my boot drive.) I pulled it and tried using an adapter to connect to my laptop and it doesn't see anything. I'm assuming the drive is toast? I thought SSDs were more reliable but I've had spinning discs go twice this lifespan. You got unlucky with this drive, chances are it won't happen to you again. I've had spinners go 15 years, I've had spinners go less than a month. I've had SSDs go... probably close to 15 years now, and I've had SSDs go less than a day. But random "it just died" failures are almost always spinners, extremely rarely SSDs. At least Intel/Samsung SSDs, YMMV with other brands. |
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Originally Posted By cruze5: 25 years in the field. every brand fails. have your data on at least 2 different devices/ sources This. I lost a good chunk of my data once, and one time was enough. Since then, I've always had two sets of backup data. Which gets expensive when you start to run out of room. Right now I've got 96Tb of storage across my active storage and backups, and I just ordered another 48Tb. Also make an image of the OS drive on occasion. If that drive craps out, dropping the image onto a new drive will get you back up and running sooner, and you won't have to reinstall everything from scratch. If you have a lot of bookmarks, back those up and put those on a separate device as well. Let my mistakes help prevent yours. 
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