Intel X25-M SSD issue

[OilSheikh]

Guys,

We have recently started deploying the X25-M 80GB SSD at work and a few months down the road, we are having a large number of laptops with these SSD's reporting BSOD's.

I have done a investigation and found this :

DOS Chkdsk > 24KB Bad sectors reported > Full Chkdsk > 0 KB bad sectors exist and SSD is OK/no more BSOD's
OR
DOS Chkdsk > 24KB Bad sectors reported > Full Chkdsk > 2048 KB bad sectors exist and SSD continues to cause BSODs

Now we are having a large number of the latter taking place and we are thinking of RMAing them. But, this just doesn't feel right. Am I missing something here?

Btw, we use WINXP SP3 and Intel SSD Optimizer is never run either. I have also come across this command while Googling fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 . Does this need to be set as well ?


Thanks

[barry2811]

Guys,

We have recently started deploying the X25-M 80GB SSD at work and a few months down the road, we are having a large number of laptops with these SSD's reporting BSOD's.

I have done a investigation and found this :

DOS Chkdsk > 24KB Bad sectors reported > Full Chkdsk > 0 KB bad sectors exist and SSD is OK/no more BSOD's
OR
DOS Chkdsk > 24KB Bad sectors reported > Full Chkdsk > 2048 KB bad sectors exist and SSD continues to cause BSODs

Now we are having a large number of the latter taking place and we are thinking of RMAing them. But, this just doesn't feel right. Am I missing something here?

Btw, we use WINXP SP3 and Intel SSD Optimizer is never run either. I have also come across this command while Googling fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 . Does this need to be set as well ?


Thanks

The command you refer to would allow the TRIM passthrough command. I say would, because only Windows 7 supports TRIM, XP doesn't support it and the command will never be passed.

[MadduckUK]

Guys,

We have recently started deploying the X25-M 80GB SSD

Btw, we use WINXP SP3

[OilSheikh]

We are moving to WIN7 at the end of the year but until then good old XP!

[MadduckUK]

you should have waited until the 7 switch to go to SSD's, really, really really

[barry2811]

We are moving to WIN7 at the end of the year but until then good old XP!

Prior to the upgrade, you could a few things that Windows 7 does when it detects an SSD (disabling prefetch, etc.).

A read of this may prove useful for some ideas of some tweaks to try.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...o-SSD-friendly

Obviously, Win7 is the way to go, but in the interim, there are things you can do to improve the experience.

[OilSheikh]

Any advice on the bad sector issue ?