Detecting IDEs - Faulty SSD?

[Evolee]

Hello people of the clever internet

I have an issue with my computer, and I am afraid that I am dealing with a faulty SSD, however, I would like your opinion on the matter.

So the thing is that my computer was running just fine and has been for approximately 5 years. Then, when I came in this morning it would not boot. It would display "Detecting IDEs", and after a while it would list detect my other drives (a std WD HDD and a DVD drive) but the SSD would not be detected at all (which of course runs my OS).
So just after listing all the registered drives, it will continue to a screen telling me to insert my OS disk for booting.

So far I have tried cycling through all the SATA ports and with different cables; nothing. Also, I am quite sure that it is recieving power, as it runs off the same power cable as my other drives and has been doing that since the beginning.

So what do you think? A faulty SSD or just me being stupid? Any suggestion in case that you do not think it is a faulty SSD or something worth trying perhaps?

The SSD in question is a roughly 4-5y old 120 gb Corsair Force...

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes - sounds like failed drive.

 

[Shaun o]

Is the SSD drive you have in the system also about 5 years old ?

I would say if it has, it`s done very well to last that long.

The thing is, it only takes a very small part of the Flash memory on the drive to fail, and when it does it renders the whole drive as not usable or being detected by the bios of your motherboard Evolee.

If you calculate how many times the SSD drive and the flash cells of it have been written and read from in five years of up time.

It`s a heck of alot of data. And on average most SSD drives to day sold have about a five year life expectancy of reading and writing cycles to the Flash nand chips.

Put simply it`s time to buy a new SSD drive Evolee.

 

[Evolee]

Yeah, that was excatly my thought, too. The drive is around 5 years old, so my first thought was that it has naturally just died off due to its lifetime.

I am quite surprised that it actually lasted this long. The computer have been used extensively, and pretty much all parts have been replaced with new stuff so far apart from the SSD - yep, it sure is time to go get a new one

Thanks for the help guys, appreciate it.