PC froze

>PC froze
>pulled power plug
>try to turn it back on
>can't find bootable drive
>look in bios
>SSD is missing

So now my OS SSD is dead and gone just because I did that? All my years of files are done for?

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What kind of SSD do you have?

Samsung 840 evo

electronics can fail. Should have made backups.

And when you say "it's gone" do you mean it doesn't show up as a disk drive (or bootable device), or as a device?

The former implies that the partition table is fucked, the second means the device is fucked.

I can't find it at all in the bios, but then again, I am not too familiar with the ins and outs of it so perhaps I am missing something.

Well, if only the partition table or file system is borked, it's possible to recover files from it. Try making an Linux ISO USB and boot from that and see if the disk shows up.

>So now my OS SSD is dead and gone just because I did that?
Your PC probably froze when the SSD died, so don't feel too bad about it.

Pull the power cable for at least 5 minutes. Ssds need to drain conpletely to fix themselves for some reason. If that doesnt work remove the CMOS battery as well.

yes its gone forever, you got memed

But you know, you're supposed to hold the power button down for 5-10 seconds when that happens, rather than pulling the plug.

>leaving your files on a disk with no PLP
DESERVED

Google SSD power cycles and follow the instructions.

this is a common problem with samsung ssd, I had my drive die during a power outage and it was not recoverable.

Wigh samsung ssd u can bring them back by cycling power through them. Alot of ppl thought the6 died during power outages and sold them cheap on ebay and you can buy them and sometines bring them back to life

>840 evo
I have that same drive in my laptop right now, how fucked am I?

>PLP
Don't make up acronyms please.

you are fucked, better update the firmware

>pulling the plug
>not holding the power button

You deserve it, retard.

This.

Sudden loss of operating system tends to halt a computer.

1. SSD's are not as reliable as HDD's (yet). They are rumored to lose data if they go without power for a while, and they haven't gone through years of constant use in enterprise settings like HDD's.
2. Don't save important stuff on the same drive you boot from. What if you want to use your files in a different OS at some point? What if you get a virus and need wipe your whole drive?
3. BACK YOU SHIT UP. Cloud or local, both if possible.

It's sad that the technology board can't even manage their data properly in the current year.

>not knowing what is power loss protection
>PLP is basically included in all modern SSDs
Fuck off back to 9gag will ya mate?

>They are rumored to lose data if they go without power for a while
Stop repeating this lie on Sup Forums.

I've had an SSD laying around unpowered for 6 months and experienced no data loss.

The other points I agree with.

It's not necessarily dead.
My BIOS had a similar problem with my Samsung 960 Pro. One day it simply disappeared after a failed overclock and a bluescreen.
I was able to find the drive in the windows startup options, by booting via an USB stick and it turned out that the drive was locked and therefore didn't show up in BIOS.
Got it to work through command prompt, then restarted and the same thing happened, no drive showed up.
It again appeared to be locked in the advanced tools. This time I didn't get it to work though.
But when I installed Windows on another drive, the locked drive was somehow showing up again with all of my files intact and I was able to format it.
Then reinstalled windows on it and it's now functioning normally as my primary SSD.
There's something fucky going on with either my mobo or these Samsung drives.

>the current year
>having important data that needs backing up

what in the fuck are you keeping? photos of your mother who died last year? you gotta move on, man. keep a physical photo if you need it.

Porn.

Just restore the important files from your backup

>he dosent know
i give you 5$ for that damaged SSD

Might as well sell your soul to the Google Photo botnet.

>1. SSD's are not as reliable as HDD's (yet)
you do realize OP is using 840 EVO, which from definition is the cheapest trash you can find?

OP, should've used Intel SSD or Samshit PRO.
Now restore your shit from backups and install gentoo.

>Intel SSDs
Lmao scrub, Samsung SSDs are the best, even the EVOs are better than others.

TLC Is a meme. Buy MLC or SLC instead.

>1. SSD's are not as reliable as HDD's
False

>samshit
>best
lmao
data centers wouldn't agree with you.
This. Only MLC with good controller+firmware

>All my years of files are done for?

OneDrive users don't have this problem.

Not OP but something similar happened to me. If the partition table is fucked, is there any way to restore it? I don't care about the data on the drive but it would be cool if I could use it again

Couldn't you just fdisk a new one if you remember the correct sizes?

>Samsung meme SSDs dying everywhere

>samsung SSDs being memed about everywhere

ftfy

It's not a rumour - all flash memory will do this eventually.

Eventually - On a timescale so long it doesn't even fucking matter.

The rumor/myth started from an article where they were doing stupid shit with the SSDs in the first place to force it to lose it's memory.

>important files on OS drive
what

>128gb Samsung SSD 830 like 5 years old
>used under windows 7 until beginning of this year then under linux as OS drive
>average at least 8 hours daily, throughout when firefox did the shit where it trashed the disk it was installed on during usage
>going as strong as ever
What now faggot

And magnetic disks degrade over time... The point is in what time frame are we talking about here?

Just checked my stats
>reallocated: 0
>power on: 2 years, 4 months
>power cycle count 3703
>wear leveling raw: 332, normalized 90%
>used reserved, program fail, erase fail and runtime bad errors all 0

Unless they fucked up their new stuff, Samsung drives are solid as fuck

>ssd suddenly dies

Fuck off

No, it can be a very small timeframe of weeks in worst-case conditions. It depends on operating temperature (low temps are bad), power-off temperature (high temps are bad), and cell wear.
Pic related, some manufacturers data for enterprise SSDs, where in a worst-case scenario of 25 C power-on temperature, and 55 C power-off temperature, data integrity is only guaranteed for 1 single week.

wtf that same exact thing happened to me but with an HDD??

source

Restore your backup and go on as usual?

anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention

I remember seeing this somewhere, you jst have to power cycle the ssd in this weird way
youtube.com/watch?v=rKqdDiL8t80
skip to 3:09

if nothing else in this thread works and you have a large magnet you can try rubbing the magnet on the bottom side of the SSD to realign the electrons which can sometimes revive a dead SSD.

NEVER do this with a HDD and keep the magnet away from any other electronics obviously. this only works with flash memory (thumb sticks, SD cards, SSDs, memory cards, etc.).

>tfw you have terabytes of porn and it will all be lost one day

>have a ssd with all your files with no backup
>get shocked when the ssd fails and you lose all your files
Nigga you stupid.

I just had the same thing happen to me except it was my hdd.
Why the fuck did you have all your files on the ssd anyway, why not double drives with a hdd as well for the files?

>3. BACK YOU SHIT UP. Cloud or local, both if possible

geeeeeeeeeeeee

>SSD's WILL WORK FOR A DECADE GOY

>WRITE CYCLES ARENT A ISSUE ANYMORE GOY

AHHAHAHAAAA!!!

>he fell for the flash storage meme

MAGNETIC/OPTICAL STORAGE PREVAILS YET AGAIN!!!

why didn't you post this image?

Don't samshit ssds have some known bug where they fuck up randomly and out have to cycle the power on them a few times to get them to work again?

Manufacturers define the maximum number of TBs that can be written while the SSD keeps functioning correctly. In these tests they fully write these TBs and then they turn the SSDs off and a consumer SSD must retain its data for 1 year at 30°C.

tomshardware.com/answers/id-2325842/power-cycling-ssd-updating-firmware-quick-questions.html

some loose cable probably
check the sata cable and the power little shit one

boot through a USB flash drive to a live linux distro and see if it appears on lsblk or fdisk.

also you could change the cable to switch the SSD is connected to

good luck :^)

>3.5inch 500GB HDD in use for atleast 10 years
>computer on almost 24/7
>play lots of gayms on it and download tons of data
>still works like a charm
sucks to be a SSD c uck KE*K)) flash memory was designed for only one thing
P O R T A B L E S T O R A G E
if a hdd suddenly fails you can atleast always try to recover it :^

>They are rumored to lose data if they go without power for a while

And HDDs will have their servos lock up if they go without power for a while.

sample size: 1

>all these poorshits latching onto any single case of SSD failure because they are unwilling / unable to spend money on the biggest jump in system performance money can buy right now

I find this all the more hilarious for being that exact kind of faggot until less than three years ago.

>evo
You should use only Pro-series
>tfw ten years warranty

> not having a ZFS backup of all your porn

google photos botnet seems pretty comfy desu, you can have everything in one place and you can access it in a comfy app from anywhere. it would be expensive to keep all my raw files backed up there tho, so it would still be an extra backup.

>comfy
>comfy

Stop fucking saying this.

convenient

my friend had a similar problem, I think all she had to do was power cycle the drive a few times.

Samsung does not include Power loss protection in any of their consumer SSDs. Not even their top tier nvme 960.

Iirc only Crucial and Intel do have PLP.

Sup Forums gave me constant shit for that 730 I bought. Never listen to g.

>Samshit SSDs

Samsung Pro consumer grade SSDs do not have PLP circuitry.

Not gonna read the thread, but I will throw in some advice. I had this happen with a Crucial SSD.

When you get this issue, leave your computer powered on for about 5-10 minutes, and then reboot. It should boot up just fine. Sometimes (i really don't know why) SSD's need to repower once they have an abrupt loss.

True. I had this happening to me on Windows and Linux when my HDD failed temporarily.

Intel 730, and Samsung does on their enterprise drives.

It's probably the other way around; your SSD dying caused the PC to freeze.

SSDs are garbage, my crucial SSD went into read only mode after 3 years. I've never had a hard-drive fail on me.

you probably keep the checksums of the files seperately and check them regularly?
Data loss happens silently and you usually notice it long after it happened.

Show me one (1) consumer SLC drive that's at least 256gb