[SOLVED] SSD is slowly dying and data recovery is almost impossible ?

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So I have this cheap SSD that I used for my C drive. I have all sorts of documents and pictures there but the problem is that the SSD does not want to do anything copying files to other places or even getting used in data recovery programs.

The background is that there was a sudden power outtage a couple of days ago which completely messed up my C drive. The drive was working but it was constantly bluescreening and freezing up. I reset Windows with the keep my files option and it was ok for another week when it started happening again. It got so bad that I couldn't reach my desktop again. I noticed that this SSD is slowly declining and I got it hooked up to a backup PC ASAP.

I went to transfer all my important files from my dying SSD to my backup PC and it keeps freezing up and sometimes it can't even "read some files from the disk source". Data recovery programs also freeze up. 7zip also doesn't work. It freezes up and gives me the CRC error or the "source disk cannot be read".

I'm lost. The new drives are on the way and i really need my data. It's so important.

The drive in question is the LCPOWER Pheonix 240GB

Cheers
 
This is specifically what a proactive data backup routine is for.

Any storage device should be treated as if were to die completely, within the next 0.25 sec.
Then there are people like me who keep track of how long their hard drive has been in the computer and change drives when the warranty is close to expiring.

Is there a risk with this approach? Yeah, but it's better than nothing.
 
Then there are people like me who keep track of how long their hard drive has been in the computer and change drives when the warranty is close to expiring.

Is there a risk with this approach? Yeah, but it's better than nothing.
My last 2 dead hard drives...
7 month old Toshiba 14TB. Went from perfect to 14k bad sectors in 5 days.
5 week old WD 3TB. Went from perfect to dead dead dead in about 36 hours.

Warranty replaced of course, but they were nowhere near that date.