First new SSD failed due to bad sectors; replacement doing the same thing?

[akosi.marie95]

The laptop I've had for about 5 years (Dell Inspiron 17R) had its HDD die recently, so I decided to upgrade to an SSD (Seagate FireCuda ST1000LX015 ) for the time being until I can get a newer laptop at the end of the year, but three months after having the SSD, it said it was failing. Using CrystalDisk, I found that I had over 50,000 reallocated sectors on my new 1TB SSD.

Since I was under warranty, I returned it and got a replacement. I've had this replacement drive for about a month and the same thing seems to be happening, with the reallocated sector count steadily (but rapidly) increasing with each use of my computer.

Seagate is willing to give me another replacement, but I'm not understanding why this is happening again. I admit, I'm not the most tech savvy, but I've been searching for answers but haven't found anything concrete.

Is it a virus? Is the SSD too "new" for my old hardware? I'm not sure, so I'm asking for help here after lurking for so long

Edit: I realize that the 50k bad sectors is a lot and that you need to look at the raw values to see what the true number is, but from what I remember, it was just as bad. The SSD was indeed failing horribly.

 

[USAFRet]

The FireCuda is not an SSD, but rather an SSHD.
A regular spinning drive, but with a small SSD space for a cache.

No idea why its happening. But your system is not 'too old', nor is it a virus.

 

[akosi.marie95]

The FireCuda is not an SSD, but rather an SSHD.
A regular spinning drive, but with a small SSD space for a cache.

No idea why its happening. But your system is not 'too old', nor is it a virus.

I read somewhere that bumping or jarring a computer with a spinning part could damage it, resulting in sectors/parts being unreadable. Since this has a spinning part, could that be it? I mean, I'm not moving my laptop around, it sits on my desk, but there have been times where I've bumped into the desk while the computer was on. That may have moved it.

 

[USAFRet]

The FireCuda is not an SSD, but rather an SSHD.
A regular spinning drive, but with a small SSD space for a cache.

No idea why its happening. But your system is not 'too old', nor is it a virus.

I read somewhere that bumping or jarring a computer with a spinning part could damage it, resulting in sectors/parts being unreadable. Since this has a spinning part, could that be it? I mean, I'm not moving my laptop around, it sits on my desk, but there have been times where I've bumped into the desk while the computer was on. That may have moved it.

For small movements like that in a laptop, generally it is OK. I mean...people use them on their literal laps...
But yes....given a hard enough bump, that could do it.

I think you just got unlucky with 2 bad drives.

 

[akosi.marie95]

The FireCuda is not an SSD, but rather an SSHD.
A regular spinning drive, but with a small SSD space for a cache.

No idea why its happening. But your system is not 'too old', nor is it a virus.

I read somewhere that bumping or jarring a computer with a spinning part could damage it, resulting in sectors/parts being unreadable. Since this has a spinning part, could that be it? I mean, I'm not moving my laptop around, it sits on my desk, but there have been times where I've bumped into the desk while the computer was on. That may have moved it.

For small movements like that in a laptop, generally it is OK. I mean...people use them on their literal laps...
But yes....given a hard enough bump, that could do it.

I think you just got unlucky with 2 bad drives.

I was feeling the same way. I mean, I've treated it the same way for the last 5 years and the original HDD just died four months ago. It can't be that delicate, as you said, laptops are built for portability :lol:

Maybe the third time will be the charm. I just need this thing to last until I get the new laptop 😀

Thanks for your help!